A person is displeased only if that person is deprived of something that that person wants or needs.
Urban dwellers were particularly likely to feel economically displeased (72 per cent) when compared to their country cousins (60 per cent).
If offense is defined in terms of displeasing activities (independent of the reasons why they are displeasing), its potential scope is vast.
None of these examples, displeasing though they may be, can be criticised for not conveying what the speaker or writer wanted them to convey.
Good dancing may therefore challenge the construction of the ageing body as undesirable and aesthetically displeasing.
I refuse to think that any in my audience would be displeased with his presence.
For instance, my informants were often displeased by their neighbours who occupied the common area of the flat, or messed it up.
The decline of the moral of government leaders displeased him.
