please
adverb
(used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly.
am pleasing
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present progressiveof please (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"People always had been nice to me," she confesses, "because I am pleasing but now this was going to be a different thing."
From Time Magazine Archive
When washing the nostrils say: "O my God, if I am pleasing in Thy sight, perfume me with the odours of Paradise."
From The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell
Pretty Tiffany made a dainty grimace as she answered: “I think I am pleasing enough to behold, yet he gave me no more than a glance when he gave me good-day.”
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
She to whom I am pleasing is ever pleasing to me.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
