(n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
(n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
(v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
(v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
(3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(4) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(5) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(7) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(8) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(9) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(10) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.
(11) Even in the best case this would cause a serious shock to the UK economy.” The CBI report angered Brexit campaigners, who believe the government is trying to scare voters into supporting Britain remaining in the EU.
(12) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
(13) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(14) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(15) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
(16) Photograph: Guardian Environmental activists now argue that if Obama fails to recognise that anger and block the pipeline, he could hurt his chances in the 2012 elections.
(17) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
(18) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(19) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(20) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.
Displease
Definition:
(v. t.) To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
(v. t.) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
(v. i.) To give displeasure or offense.
Example Sentences:
(1) More powerful regional allies, such as the UAE, may be displeased and downgraded ties by recalling ambassadors, but calculated that they didn’t want to break off ties with Tehran entirely.
(2) Budd is bemused but not, you sense, displeased at the renewed media attention, despite the pain it caused before.
(3) Both internals and externals were equally pleased by success feedback and displeased by failure and their competence judgement was influenced by the feedback received.
(4) The press thing is a part of it, but it’s also to show your friends, or your last company, like, ‘Hey, fuck you, look at me, I got this $2m album.’ Guys do that all the time.” The purchase is said to have displeased the rappers, with Ghostface Killah describing him as a “shithead” to TMZ.
(5) They should be a natural part of optometric practice, and will better educate patients who will less likely be displeased with the course of treatment because of unrealistic expectations.
(6) Last month she secured her Olympic place in Turin but quarter-final exits in the 500m and 1,000m displeased her boss, the Team GB performance director Stuart Horsepool.
(7) Yet the water odor displeased 21.7% of households which used dug wells.
(8) Indeed, any woman who has been told to “smile, love, it might never happen” will know that even when not a member of the royal family, moving one’s facial muscles into certain configurations remains displeasing to some.
(9) "It looks like you're displeased Liverpool could potentially still win the title.
(10) As a matter of fact, luminous or auditory stimuli can be pleasing or displeasing in themselves, but there seems to be little variation of pleasure in these sensations, that is, no alliesthesia.
(11) Trump has galvanized scientists with his comments about climate change, which he has called a “hoax”, as well as questions about whether vaccines are safe and threats to cut funding to universities that displease him .
(12) Having made few friends among his Arab neighbours, displeasing Turkey, a member of Nato and, more important, a country that is popular among ordinary Syrians, could be the straw that breaks the lion's back .
(13) It says much for the expectation where Del Bosque's line-up is concerned that some have been displeased with them.
(14) Every time a journalist has displeased me I make an allusion to concentration camp guards, or Nazis.
(15) Thus are ambered the names of those theatre critics who may have displeased the playwright: Gray’s Anathema.
(16) The progress of the Greek team was not popular outside their own country; Everton were deeply displeased with the refereeing of the Frenchman who took charge of their return leg against Panathinaikos in Athens.
(17) The resultant tooth loss is cosmetically displeasing and, frequently, there is compromise in function.
(18) Excessive abduction or forward flexion should be avoided, however, because this can be cosmetically displeasing to patients.
(19) That won him headlines, diverting attention from the dodgy fiscal numbers, and swiftly secured the endorsement of that secular saint Jamie Oliver – seen dancing a much-tweeted jig in celebration – but it displeases plenty on his own side.
(20) Those who displeased the monarch did not live long to tell the tale.