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Definition of Displeasingly
1. Adverb. In a displeasing manner. "He made displeasingly cutting remarks about his friends"
Partainyms: Displeasing
Definition of Displeasingly
1. Adverb. In a displeasing manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Displeasingly
Literary usage of Displeasingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"... is displeasingly associated with his heartless abandonment of Dido. It is an
old and a pithy criticism, that the two most interesting personages of the ..."
2. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), F. Guizot (1856)
"At the time, ignorant of this circumstance, and not understanding what Orestes
meant, we asked him how and in what he had been treated displeasingly; ..."
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