displeasure

displease | American Dictionary

displease
verb[ T ]
us/dɪsˈpliz/
to cause someone to be annoyed:
The city council said it was displeased with the way the mayor had allocated parking spaces.

displeasure

noun[ U ]us/dɪsˈpleʒ·ər/
They refused to work overtime, much to the displeasure of their boss.

Examples of displease

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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.
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