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

PIGS?Young people, rural life and nothing that will displease rigid moralists.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have a fear that I may say something that will displease Mr. Hoover.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The old sachem will not be offended at what the young sachem doth,” says the English record, “and the young sachem will not do what he conceives will displease his uncle.”

From Once Upon a Time in Connecticut by Newton, Caroline Clifford