Displeasure can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| displeasure - To displease. | ||
Noun |
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| displeasure - the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something |
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| 1. | noun | A frown may express anger or displeasure. | |
| 2. | noun | A midnight telephone call gives us both shock and displeasure. | |
| 3. | noun | You are one of the most despicable people it has ever been my displeasure to meet. | |
| 4. | noun | Whenever he got a present he didn't like (and that was all of them), he would always express his strong displeasure at having received it. Not once did he ever pretend to like his gift to make the other person happy. | |
| 5. | noun | Tom yet again expressed his displeasure over the still ongoing strike. | |
| 6. | noun | Dorcon, finding himself vanquished, fled into the woods to hide his shame and displeasure, and to devise some other means of succeeding in his love affairs. | |
| 7. | noun | It might seem as if the ancient founder of the castle were bestriding the thunderstorm, and proclaiming his displeasure at the reconciliation of his descendant with the enemy of his house. | |
| 8. | noun | Ravenswood pleaded, apologised, and even kneeled, to appease her displeasure. | |
| 9. | noun | He joined the separatist group much to his parents' displeasure. | |
| 10. | noun | Tom expressed his displeasure. | |
| 11. | noun | Much to the displeasure of the rabid separatists, Mellal is no longer the president of JSK. | |
| 12. | noun | By catching so many fish, Tom incurred the displeasure of the sea king, who dispatched a huge whale to deal with him. | |
| 13. | noun | Mary realised with some displeasure that a book with the title she had chosen for her own work already existed. | |
| 14. | noun | Mary realised with some displeasure that there was already a book with the title she had chosen for her own work. | |
| 15. | verb | The dog sensed its owners displeasure with the chewed-up pillow. |
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| noun | |
| A frown may express anger or displeasure. | |
| A midnight telephone call gives us both shock and displeasure. | |
| You are one of the most despicable people it has ever been my displeasure to meet. | |
| Whenever he got a present he didn't like (and that was all of them), he would always express his strong displeasure at having received it. Not once did he ever pretend to like his gift to make the other person happy. | |
| Tom yet again expressed his displeasure over the still ongoing strike. | |
| Dorcon, finding himself vanquished, fled into the woods to hide his shame and displeasure, and to devise some other means of succeeding in his love affairs. | |
| It might seem as if the ancient founder of the castle were bestriding the thunderstorm, and proclaiming his displeasure at the reconciliation of his descendant with the enemy of his house. | |
| Ravenswood pleaded, apologised, and even kneeled, to appease her displeasure. | |
| He joined the separatist group much to his parents' displeasure. | |
| Tom expressed his displeasure. | |
| Much to the displeasure of the rabid separatists, Mellal is no longer the president of JSK. | |
| By catching so many fish, Tom incurred the displeasure of the sea king, who dispatched a huge whale to deal with him. | |
| Mary realised with some displeasure that a book with the title she had chosen for her own work already existed. | |
| Mary realised with some displeasure that there was already a book with the title she had chosen for her own work. | |
| verb | |
| The dog sensed its owners displeasure with the chewed-up pillow. | |