(v. t.) To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.
(v. t.) To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.
(v. t.) To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally.
(v. i.) To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
(v. i.) To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(2) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(4) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
(5) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(6) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
(7) I am pleased with that but disappointed with the result.
(8) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(9) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.
(10) And he pleased the audience with an acknowledgement that social work is a tough job and social workers only human.
(11) [The prime minister] is very pleased we’ve been able to secure this arrangement.
(12) In the email King sets out ways jobcentre staff can catch out claimants, saying: "You should consider every doubt – if you are unsure then please conference with me."
(13) Angela Merkel says she's very pleased to accept the invitation to Davos, at a time when global economic growth is modest.
(14) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
(15) "This has been a challenging time for the BMJ but I am very pleased the panel has taken the view that we acted appropriately," said BMJ editor in chief, Dr Fiona Godlee.
(16) Two British throwers up there, it's unheard of, I'm pleased with where the sport's going."
(17) • If you have experiences relating to this story that you would like to share, please email us in confidence at inequality.project@theguardian.com
(18) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
(19) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
(20) "Really, really pleased," said the world silver medallist.
Pleaser
Definition:
(n.) One who pleases or gratifies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike Osborne's previous crowd-pleaser on inheritance tax, it even helps low earners most.
(2) However, clever Miss Bennet was not an automatic crowd-pleaser on her first outings.
(3) Perhaps better to enjoy Wilder for what he is – a flawed crowd-pleaser with one-punch knockout power who is never in a bad fight – than what he is not.
(4) For the relatively modest price tag of £100 each, and with a serious public health agenda, baby boxes are a crowd-pleaser of such magnitude that one sensed she could have ditched the rest of the manifesto and still come out on top.
(5) That will be one of the few crowd-pleasers in the budget and laced with a touch of revenge.
(6) It was created by David Blunkett's Home Office in the 2003 Criminal Justice Act to deal with violent and sexual offenders and was potentially a crowd-pleaser – remember "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"?
(7) It was a noisy, somewhat relentless event, that had some crowd-pleasers, some interesting smaller projects and a few glimpses at what the big publishers are pulling out of the development bag for the second wave of next-gen consoles (well, they're current-gen now, of course, but that is way too confusing).
(8) A tabloid crowd-pleaser, shorthand for assault on the welfare state with cuts taking up to 80% of the burden, extra taxes only 20%.
(9) Clement is Vladislav, an 862-year-old ladykiller, Waititi is Viago, a 379-year-old people-pleaser, and they’re joined by Petyr (Ben Fransham), an 8,000-year-old Nosferatu-like misanthropist and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), an ex-Nazi vampire who, at just 183 years of age, is a bit gauche.
(10) She's a consummate crowd pleaser, at one point even changing into a union jack T-shirt, as if trying to make friends with her location.
(11) The National Portrait Gallery is on a mission to rescue the painter John Singer Sargent from the consequences of his own brilliance, the dazzling, lightning-quick technique that saw him dismissed for generations after his death as a clever crowd-pleaser who churned out society portraits.
(12) This decision is a crowd-pleaser, which will not help renters in the long term.
(13) And when his crowd-pleaser pleased the critics, he saw a lesson in it.
(14) A scurrying, muscular figure, Girolami was a bit more of a crowd-pleaser.
(15) Facing the De Young Museum across the park's open-air music concourse, the Academy of Sciences has been an instant crowd-pleaser.
(16) Fast-forward 18 months and Opera North offer me the chance to direct Georges Bizet's Carmen – the musical opposite of Birtwistle, the very definition of a classic, a crowd-pleaser, a war horse.
(17) Ukip is led by the widely mistrusted Nigel Farage, a lazy crowd-pleaser who cannot work with his own colleagues, has always run away from any whiff of responsibility and disowns any statement that turns out to be unpopular, including his own.
(18) It comes just a few days after Alistair Darling's budget – which was notably short on tax-and-spend doorstep pleasers – and on the morning of the chancellors' debate on television.
(19) It's a unique concoction, and always a crowd pleaser!
(20) Theatrical versions of Hollywood crowd-pleasers are, of course, nothing new: the West End is awash with Flashdance and its ilk.