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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displease/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displease/#x1)
- Your rude answer displeased the queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displease/#x2)
- The mess displeased Mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displease/#x3)
- Nothing I did seemed to displease him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displease/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.844/)
- [But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.297/)
- [And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.771/)
- [And the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1289/)
- [But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.40/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «displease» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displease/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.