displease

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Meaning

To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.

To fail to satisfy; to miss of.

To give displeasure or offense.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. William Hazlitt

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J. H. Boetcker

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. Francis Bacon

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong. George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us. French Proverb

If it pleases you, it does not displease me. Latin Proverb

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