displease
/dɪsˈpliːz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The boy's rudeness displeased me."
- "I felt displeased with the boy."
- "Wilt thou be displeased at us forever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?"
- "How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors. It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them.""
- "I shall displease my ends else."
Etymology
English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).