Voorbeelden van displease

• If the gravamen of offense is merely that the conduct displeases many people, then it is not clear that wrongdoing has occurred at all.

• Significantly, representatives from a large number of organizations were displeased with the decision of the tribunal.

• To avoid displeasing the examiner, the candidate answered that it was the spiritual eye.

• On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased; or rather, that failed to please.

• They were also displeased that some products were supplied in containers that had to be shared between several farmers.

• So if they say something which may displease you, just forgive them for they may not know what they are talking about.

• To be sure, these citizens are displeased by high costs and waste in the system.

• The decline of the moral of government leaders displeased him.

• For instance, my informants were often displeased by their neighbours who occupied the common area of the flat, or messed it up.

• I refuse to think that any in my audience would be displeased with his presence.

• 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.

• Urban dwellers were particularly likely to feel economically displeased (72 per cent) when compared to their country cousins (60 per cent).

• A person is displeased only if that person is deprived of something that that person wants or needs.