0 present participle of displease --
1 to cause someone to be annoyed or unhappy: --
I wouldn't want to do anything to displease him.
It would be easy enough, if we were gerrymandering, to please them instead of displeasing them.
Then it cannot be said that we shall in any way be displeasing the local authority associations if we take the fixed maximums out.
Generally, conifer forests can have a displeasing visual effect.
They have been generous at the risk, sometimes, of displeasing the heads of the organisation which they serve.
Whether it will be pleasing or displeasing is another question.
They could refuse, it is suggested, only at the risk of displeasing some of their customers.
For example, a chair that may be beautiful to look at but which is uncomfortable to sit in is aesthetically displeasing, because its use brings discomfort.
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.
