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How to use displease in a sentence

16 example sentences · verb

Displease means to make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly. Example: “The boy's rudeness displeased me.”

Examples of displease by meaning

verbTo make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.

  • The boy's rudeness displeased me.
  • I felt displeased with the boy.

More sentences with displease

  • After the hurricane, the building was structurally sound but aesthetically displeasing.From the entry displeasing
  • While the flashy special effects were nice, the movie was aurally jarring, loud and displeasing in general to the ear.From the entry aurally
  • Beyond that, Schumer’s threat was Trumpian—a judge who displeases me will pay a price.2020 March 6, Garrett Epps, “Chuck Schumer Needs to Watch Himself”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2020. From the entry Trumpian
  • Not only will you be whipped, but Jack Ketch will be displeased.2019 November 7, Carter J. Gregory, The Hangman's Psalm: The Girl at the Gallows. From the entry dance
  • Mr Como was quite displeased and he told me to stay back tomorrow and do it.2011, My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore. From the entry stay back
  • Apparently, in both domestic and foreign movies, you can't get too villainy to displease an audience.1993, William Froug, Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade, page 51. From the entry villainy
  • Most magazine and journal articles about Playboy range from loudly displeased to vitriolic.1969, Walter M. Gerson, Social Problems in a Changing World: A Comparative Reader. From the entry Playboyian
  • Naturally, it looks "typewritery," but it is not displeasing, and is quite neat.1904, Process Review and Journal of Electrotyping, volumes 9-10, page 444. From the entry typewritery
  • It should not be grotesque or in any way displeasing.2008, Paul Terry Cherington, Advertising as a Business Force, →ISBN, page 361. From the entry coined name
  • This displeased the other sons of Nsangou who observed the Queen Mother (Regent) as cruel and a power mongeress.1979, La Province de L’Ouest, page 88. From the entry mongeress
  • Every crisis will draw significant numbers of people out who would ask why you couldn’t cut off whoever was displeasing them in that moment.2025 October 31, Marina Hyde, “Now Andrew has been fired from the Firm, a nation wonders: who’ll be next?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry abdication
  • He is constitutionally incapable of displeasing a live audience, let alone a foreign potentate who has recently lassoed him with a golden chain.2017 May 21, Graeme Wood, “Trump Complies Perfectly With the Saudi Line”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2017. From the entry potentate
  • Despite what Xenophon says about Sokrates’ popular sympathies, this tendency will not altogether have displeased him, but not because he was a snob.1984, John Willoby Roberts, City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens, Routledge, published 1998, →ISBN, pages 244–245. From the entry Sokrates
  • For example, individuals accused of unethical conduct might challenge the decision rendered by an ethics review panel if they were displeased with the ethics review process or outcome.2017, Joseph Byrne, Administration Ethics: Executive Decisions in Canadian Healthcare, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry unethical

Meaning of displease

  1. verb To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
  2. verb To give displeasure or offense.
  3. verb To fail to satisfy; to miss of.

Full definition of displease

Questions about displease in a sentence

How do you use displease in a sentence?
Displease is used as a verb. For example: “The boy's rudeness displeased me.”
What is a short sentence with displease?
“The boy's rudeness displeased me.”
What does displease mean?
Displease means to make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: displease (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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