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Meanings of less pleasing in English

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Usage of less pleasing in English
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That evening another incident occurred, not less pleasing to the drummer boy.
The Drummer Boy
2
No portion of our parliamentary history is less pleasing or more instructive.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
3
Well, I would take a less pleasing office if only for that.
The Children of the New Forest
4
The Virgin is charmingly posed and draped, the children less pleasing.
Fra Bartolommeo
5
The change to warmth, however, had another and less pleasing aspect.
The Heart of Unaga
6
But I have another communication to make you, of a less pleasing nature.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
7
And yet, count, their smiles are less pleasing to me than your frowns.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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Or was his intention in writing still less pleasing to her than this?
What Necessity Knows
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The Phoenician woman was less and less pleasing to Ramses.
The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
10
By degrees I accustom him to less pleasing masks, and at last hideous ones.
Emile
11
The details are less pleasing than was the whole in the hands of the nurse.
The Prime Minister
12
Here and there a sail-boat glided by, with a different, but scarce less pleasing motion.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
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But Mr. Black's thoughts were less pleasing than hers.
Dark Hollow
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His subsequent successes were no less pleasing because he learned the magic of the scenery mystery.
Writing for Vaudeville
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After all, is there a less pleasing thing in the world than a house of pleasure?
The Magic Skin
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Mark Shrewsbury found it less pleasing in reality than in his visions during the dinner-party at Dulminster.
The Autobiography of a Slander
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