displease

«displease» in Mova's school dictionary: to make them cross or unhappy, or to fail to please them — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (displeases, displeased, displeasing)

meaning for a pupil

To displease someone is to make them cross or unhappy, or to fail to please them. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, a king or a bird is annoyed by a rude answer or a plain face; in lessons, a mistake that displeases the teacher.

examples

• Noisy talking displeases the teacher. tree →
• Your rude answer displeased the queen. tree →
• The mess displeased Mum. tree →
• Nothing I did seemed to displease him. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.'
• But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
• And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.
• And the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice;
• But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «displease» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.