displease
verb (used with object)
to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy.
is displeasing
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present progressiveof displease (3rd 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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And so it often happens that such a man is sorry for his sin not because sin in itself is displeasing to him, but on account of his reaping some disadvantage from the sin.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Instead of assuming an expression of severe reproof, she blushes from time to time, and casts down her eyes, and I cannot discover from her face that this ungodly conduct is displeasing to her.'
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
If a color scheme is displeasing, the fault may be in the wrong selection of hues, in weak values, in ill-matched intensities or all three.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
In her eyes, every man who has a good time, and doesn't do wonderful things, is displeasing to her.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
A lie destroys her to whom life is displeasing.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
