displeased

[ US /dɪsˈpɫizd/ ]
[ UK /dɪsplˈiːzd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure
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How To Use displeased In A Sentence

  • The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast. Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
  • In the summer another six or eight had returned from the farm on Cap Tourmente, and eleven arrived in the shallop that so displeased Champlain. Champlain's Dream
  • He said 'I am very displeased. The Sun
  • The man's face is set in a displeased grimace, his brow furrowed in certain displeasure.
  • And once she'd caught his displeased look when he looked at her and her child.
  • Gokool refused to prostrate himself at his feet while he should put his foot on his head; for which his gooroo was displeased ... Life of William Carey
  • He was displeased about the whole affair.
  • The other Indians were displeased at the conduct of the Natchez, imagining they had forwarded the term agreed on, in order to make them ridiculous, and proposed to take vengeance the first opportunity, not knowing the true cause of the precipitation of the Natchez. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
  • Nurse Jamieson had got on a favourite topic, and would have expatiated long enough, for she was a professed admirer of masculine beauty, but there was something which displeased the boy in her last simile; so he cut the conversation short, by asking whether she knew exactly how much money his grandfather had left with Dr. Gray for his maintenance. The Surgeon's Daughter
  • She frowns softly, more of a piteous look than a displeased one.
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