(v. t.) A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
(v. t.) A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.
(v. t.) A gift.
(v. t.) Grateful praise or worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
(3) I often remind him that after a test or a difficulty, blessings arrive.
(4) The move, first mooted two months ago, has been instigated with Jol's blessing and the new man was quick to insist he had spent "many hours" talking with his compatriot prior to accepting the position, even if his arrival effectively dilutes the manager's powerbase at the club.
(5) Unable to tap international markets, with its banks forced to rely on limited emergency funding provided on a week-by-week basis with the blessing of the ECB, it is fast running out of cash.
(6) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(7) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
(8) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
(9) May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless America.
(10) It is a sacred moment, and you feel blessed merely to have witnessed it.
(11) He’s gifted, a blessed young man with incredible hand speed and power.
(12) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
(13) He often claimed that God had blessed him with the gift of the delayed hangover, one that kicked in only when he had done his day's work.
(14) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(15) Rate of progression of dementia was determined in 77 patients by repeated administration of the Blessed Dementia Scale (BDS).
(16) For whatever reason, the team is not gelling, despite substantial financial backing in the summer and the dressing room being blessed with a huge amount of quality.
(17) I wish him - with Caroline and the family - every blessing, and hope that the church of England and the Anglican communion will share my pleasure at this appointment and support him with prayer and love."
(18) Meena Raman of the Malaysia-based Third World Network told IPS: "Given the stance of the United States thus far in the Rio+20 negotiations, and the position they have taken in the climate change negotiations in Durban, it may perhaps be a blessing that President Obama is not coming to Rio."
(19) It was an unbelievable feeling,” Keating told Associated Press, adding she felt “totally blessed and loved” by the pope.
(20) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
Displeasure
Definition:
(n.) The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation.
(n.) That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury.
(n.) State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor.
(v. t.) To displease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, throughout the second session, the same stimuli were presented and the subject rated his pleasure or displeasure in response to the second dimension of the matrix (e.g.
(2) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benjamin Netanyahu to John Kerry: friends don’t take friends to the security council On Monday, Trump tweeted his displeasure with the UN, dismissing it as “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time”.
(4) Since snoring is said to be a "disease of listeners," it is not uncommon that bed partners reported an increased incidence of depression and marital displeasure.
(5) This minor concession to an "ethical" foreign policy was nevertheless overshadowed by rumours of Tony Blair's displeasure at Cook's action.
(6) In a sign of Delhi’s displeasure, work has already stalled on some key Indian-backed development projects in Afghanistan, Spanta claimed.
(7) There had been no sign or signal in any way that we had incurred their displeasure.
(8) When theRussian host appeared to announce the nation's votes – including seven for Ukraine – the crowd again loudly voiced their displeasure.
(9) Chairpeople, on the other hand, have other, more powerful means of expressing their displeasure.
(10) The physical and social environment of day care is characterized in terms of its emotional impact with use of three orthogonal dimensions: pleasure-displeasure, arousal-nonarousal, and dominance-submissiveness.
(11) Macdonald, who was passed over for a frontbench position post-election and frequently makes his displeasure about that known, has shifted post-budget from recent preoccupations including public opposition to the prime minister’s paid parental leave scheme to arguments about broadening the GST.
(12) It signals US displeasure but stops short of a full-blown boycott that could escalate tensions with the Kremlin, at a time when Washington still badly needs Moscow's help on Syria, Iran and other thorny international problems.
(13) 1.50pm: an ‘unreserved’ apology on Twitter Less than three hours after his LBC interview, and after a spokesman for Corbyn makes his displeasure clear , Livingstone says he’s sorry – and this time he means it.
(14) Many analysts say China is using the meetings with Park to signal its displeasure with North Korea and increase pressure on the government there.
(15) Next year, the North will have a lot of demand for economic cooperation projects with China,” Lim said, adding that while Pyongyang may express temporary its displeasure it would soon start working again on improving relations.
(16) Such performance could be predicted from the sum of ratings of displeasure aroused in the lower limbs and in the chest.
(17) Photograph: Julie Dermansky In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over 200 people, mostly white, middle-aged males, turned up to show their displeasure with Obama's 23 new executive orders and his attempt to reinstate the assault weapons ban.
(18) Coleman described the performance against Serbia as "soul-destroying" and admitted he could have no complaints with the fans who voiced their displeasure.
(19) In a game against Marilia, the defender Johnny dos Santos took exception to the referee adding what he considered an inadequate amount of injury time at the end of the game, and expressed his displeasure by karate-kicking the official to the floor .
(20) China expressed its displeasure with the Times the day after Barboza's report was published in October.