0 present participle of displease
1 to cause someone to be annoyed or unhappy:
I wouldn't want to do anything to displease him.
To avoid displeasing the examiner, the candidate answered that it was the spiritual eye.
However, it is not for the fine arts to accustom themselves to such absurd and displeasing practices, but rather to sweet and gentle sensations.
Good dancing may therefore challenge the construction of the ageing body as undesirable and aesthetically displeasing.
None of these examples, displeasing though they may be, can be criticised for not conveying what the speaker or writer wanted them to convey.
If offense is defined in terms of displeasing activities (independent of the reasons why they are displeasing), its potential scope is vast.
In such cases she has a degree of self-value that appears displeasing from the common point of view.
This is apparent whether the musical extract is known or unknown, and also, but to a lesser degree, whether the musical genre is pleasing or displeasing to the listener.
It is hardly surprising that some laypeople exploited this situation and probed the boundaries which separated them from the priesthood in ways that were displeasing to the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
