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Definition of Displeasing
1. Adjective. Causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities.
Similar to: Disconcerting, Upsetting, Exasperating, Infuriating, Maddening, Vexing, Off-putting
Antonyms: Pleasing
Definition of Displeasing
1. a. Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.
Definition of Displeasing
1. Adjective. Unattractive, dislikable, objectionable. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of displease) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Displeasing
1. displease [v] - See also: displease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Displeasing
Literary usage of Displeasing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"My opposition was very displeasing to my father, who was entitled to great respect
and deference; and I had reason to apprehend disagreeable consequences ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... this declaration that contests of this kind were displeasing to those in power
docs seem to have suffice;! to put an end to the outward manifestations ..."
3. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets by George Gilfillan (1860)
"1 Away! let nought to love displeasing, My Winifreda, move your care; Let nought
delay the heavenly blessing, Nor squeamish pride, nor gloomy fear. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... not diminish the displeasing effect. The nineteenth century brought a return
to the early Christian and Gothic forms. The altars of the latest time are ..."
5. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Arthur Orton, Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1874)
"The defendant was next asked how he made the discovery that his attentions to
Miss Doughty were displeasing to her father, and his answers aie very ..."
6. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"I can now hear of displeasing things with pity, and without indignation.
The reflection on the great gulph between you and me, cools all news that come ..."
7. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"... the present most daring action, form the subject of the next chapter. CHAPTER XX.
Retrospect.—Restoration of the Bourbons displeasing to the Soldiery, ..."
8. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"Mr. George Montagu tells me of the King displeasing the House of Commons by
evading their Bill for examining Accounts, and putting it into a Commission, ..."
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