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DISPLEASED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure
Classified under:
Similar:
annoyed; irritated; miffed; nettled; peeved; pissed; pissed off; riled; roiled; steamed; stung (aroused to impatience or anger)
browned off; cheesed off; exasperated (greatly annoyed; out of patience)
disgusted; fed up; sick; sick of; tired of (having a strong distaste from surfeit)
frowning (showing displeasure or anger)
injured; offended; pained (emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed)
Also:
discontent; discontented (showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing)
Antonym:
pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb displease
Context examples:
The skipper was not displeased with the compliment, and went on:—When we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble; some o' them, the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box which had been put on board by a queer lookin' old man just before we had started frae London.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A sacrifice was always noble; and if she had given way to their entreaties, she should have been spared the distressing idea of a friend displeased, a brother angry, and a scheme of great happiness to both destroyed, perhaps through her means.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I should be extremely displeased if Wright were to send us up such a dinner, as could make me regret having asked more than Jane Fairfax to partake of it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased, or rather that failed to please.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Miss Bertram, displeased with her sister, led the way, and all seemed to feel that they had been there long enough.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She stood and stared at him for a minute, looking both surprised and displeased, then walked on, saying sharply, "How do you know?"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I am most seriously displeased.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I remarked that, once or twice when Mr. Quinion was talking, he looked at Mr. Murdstone sideways, as if to make sure of his not being displeased; and that once when Mr. Passnidge (the other gentleman) was in high spirits, he trod upon his foot, and gave him a secret caution with his eyes, to observe Mr. Murdstone, who was sitting stern and silent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And I do not think Mr. Ferrars can be displeased, when he knows I have trusted you, because I know he has the highest opinion in the world of all your family, and looks upon yourself and the other Miss Dashwoods quite as his own sisters.—She paused.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
