show displeasure
Example Sentences
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“Their argument was that language had been moving, albeit subtly, to show displeasure with Russia,” Blanchette said about the discussion during the “track-two” nongovernmental exchange.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022
She recalled one person used vomit emojis to show displeasure; another called her book “utter swill.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2021
Louisiana’s governors have long used their vetoes to show displeasure with individual lawmakers and to express their own political philosophies.
From Washington Times • Jul. 2, 2017
Men are allowed a few surly comments under the cover of drunkenness, and women sometimes take to their beds to show displeasure, but most of the time people just swallow their rage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pride again forbade Goethe to show displeasure, and again our reading has to be done between the lines.
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
