What's the difference between displease and displeaser?
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.
Displeaser
Definition:
(n.) One who displeases.
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.