Displease
/dɪsˈpliːz/ verb
verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly. transitive
"The boy's rudeness displeased me."
- 2 give displeasure to wordnet
- 3 To give displeasure or offense. intransitive
- 4 To fail to satisfy; to miss of. obsolete, transitive
"I shall displease my ends else."
Example
More examples"If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her."
Etymology
English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).