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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“It seems to me everything is displeasing to-day.”
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
Could you not have understood that the subject you spoke of in your letter in pencil is displeasing to me?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
It is exceedingly disagreeable to find that a scheme you have set your head on, or a prospect which smiles before you, is displeasing to the persons who surround you.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
Daniel mentions some matter which he fears is displeasing in God's sight.
From With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador by Benjamin La Trobe
That a woman should demonstrate to a man in fine sententious language the expediency of marrying her, is not inconsistent with good sense, but it is displeasing.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
