Displease

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.

That does not seem to displease her.

"Around the world it's a much more dangerous situation," added Mr. Allison, who says that disclosing acts of corruption is a central duty of the media. It is charged with keeping the public informed, even when revelations displease individuals who are caught in the glare of the light.

And when I read some of the said book, I thought about it and decided to translate it into English, and forthwith took a quill and ink and wrote a page or two, which I then examined to make corrections. And when I saw the sophisticated and unusual terms there, I feared it would displease some gentlemen who had lately blamed me, saying that my translations featured too many obscure terms that could not be understood by the common folk, and wanted me to use old and conventional terms in my translations. And I would be happy to satisfy every man, and with that in mind I took an old book and read from it; and certainly its English was so plain and varied that I struggled to understand it. And also my lord abbot of Westminster had recently shown me some texts written in old English, in order to translate them into our current English, and certainly they were written in such a way that they were more akin to German than English, and I could not translate them or make them understandable.

Does being alone displease you?

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.