be displeased by
Example Sentences
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Depart again in the morning, if you will: we shall neither of us be displeased by then to say farewell, I dare say.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter
Dom Geronimo, who lost no word of the interview, seemed to be displeased by Mowbray’s adroit distinction between the occupant of the throne and a prince of the royal blood.
From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis
He had affected to be displeased by the doctor's air of treating his case as though it was deprived of all importance.
From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold
Superstition had not utterly extinguished all national feeling in his mind; and he could not but be displeased by the malevolence with which his Celtic supporters regarded the race from which he sprang.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
If any be displeased by the result, I can but submit that my verses are my own, and that this is how I would have them read.
From Poems by Henley, William Ernest
