Definition of Pleasing

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Definition of Pleasing
	Pleasing of Please Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. An object of pleasure. Related Definitions: Agreeable, An, As, Causing, Delightful, Emotion, Giving, Object, Of, Or, Please, Pleasing, Pleasure, Prospect, Satisfaction

Pleasing Quotations

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
Jimmy Buffett

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
John Updike

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
Virgil

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza

Pleasing Translations

pleasing in Dutch is bekoorlijk, aantrekkelijk, behaaglijk
pleasing in French is plaisant
pleasing in German is anziehend, angenehm
pleasing in Hungarian is kellemes
pleasing in Portuguese is satisfazer

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