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Meanings of displeasing in English

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desagradable

Causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities.

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        desagradable

        Unpleasant, offensive, or causing dislike.

              Usage of displeasing in English
              1
              There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.
              Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
              2
              She was a young woman of unexceptional appearance, neither beautiful nor displeasing.
              Ghost Story
              3
              They have all very much the same general features, pleasing and displeasing.
              Elsie Venner
              4
              Singularity is, I think, in its own nature universally and invariably displeasing.
              The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 / ...
              5
              I can now hear of displeasing things with pity, and without indignation.
              Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
              6
              She hardly ever did any thing which was displeasing to her parents.
              The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Ill...
              7
              All this caution did not prevent Racine, however, from displeasing the king.
              A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
              8
              There is a man of wealth and influence very displeasing to me.
              Hindoo Tales; Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes
              9
              To think you are one, portends you are threatened with displeasing circumstances.
              Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
              10
              Eminently likable, she can make even the most displeasing of scripts palatable.
              The Guardian
              11
              Riley's noncommittal attitude was by no means displeasing to the larger man.
              The Rangeland Avenger
              12
              She laughed-herfitful, somewhat unreal laugh, which was always displeasing to him.
              Maurice Guest
              13
              Nay, are not the very thoughts of it altogether displeasing to thee?
              The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
              14
              Tummas, however, having instinctively found him displeasing, he had gained but little.
              T. Tembarom
              15
              Why was it that her face was so beautiful, yet so displeasing?
              Taken Alive
              16
              Can I not, without displeasing you, defend myself when I am attacked?
              Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
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