Definition of Displease

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Displease

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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Displease Quotations

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

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Brigham Young

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Displease Translations

displease in Italian is dispiacere
displease in Spanish is desagradar, displicencia
displease in Swedish is misshaga

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