displeasing

Speech parts

1. displeasing - Adjective

2. displeasing - Verb

Meaning

of Displease

Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

frightful impermissible poor bad offensive terrible foul unacceptable unpleasant disappointing ugly offending forbidding horrible provoking
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Antonyms

pleasing foxy good musical sexual easy
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Phrases with the word

displeasing couple with throughrepetance for sin because it is displeasing to god displeasing place

Examples

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing. François de La Rochefoucauld

The sinners ... did not even have the consolation of feeling they were in God's good books. The educated people told them that they were displeasing to God and "they ought to know.”. Albert Nolan

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. Lord Byron

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. David Hume

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A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regards to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

displeasedly displeasedness displeaser displeasing couple displeasing place displeasingly