displease
verb (used with object)
to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy.
was displeasing
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past progressiveof displease.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Genesis 38: "And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was displeasing to him, I know, and yet he did not hesitate to range himself on my side, because I had gone too far for him to undo my work without openly disavowing me.
From Under a Charm, Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
She hardly ever did any thing which was displeasing to her parents.
From The Child at Home The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
She was shut out in the mist and dark; he wasn't thinking of her at all; he was chill, preoccupied; something was displeasing him; decisively, almost sharply, he told her where to write.
From Amabel Channice by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
He would "continue to advocate economy in the State offices, whether it was displeasing to some gentlemen or not."
From History of the Constitutions of Iowa by Benjamin F. Shambaugh
