displease
verb (used with object)
to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy.
will displease
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future tenseof displease.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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His solution, which will displease purists, and plenty of impurists as well, was to do away with the dialogue altogether and put the music through a high-speed chipper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2021
A similar example, also in the DSM-IV, is the East Asian phenomenon of jiko-shisen-kyofu, the phobia that one's own glance will displease or offend other people.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2011
I have a fear that I may say something that will displease Mr. Hoover.
From Time Magazine Archive
PIGS?Young people, rural life and nothing that will displease rigid moralists.
From Time Magazine Archive
You see, if you marry the prince"—he meant the younger man—and he crooked one finger, "you forever lose the chance of marrying the other, and you will displease the court besides.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
