What's the difference between displeasing and malgracious?

Displeasing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Displease
  • (a.) Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.

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.

Malgracious


Definition:

  • (a.) Not graceful; displeasing.

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