displeasing

How To Use displeasing In A Sentence

• The relish of the mind is as various as that of the body, and like that too may be altered; and it is a mistake to think that men cannot change the displeasingness or indifferency that is in actions into pleasure and desire, if they will do but what is in their power. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• He was persuaded that disunity in the church was displeasing to heaven and bad for the empire's success and prosperity.
• Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
• No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
• Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption, who continue constant in their love to him, so as not to be corrupted out of it by any baits or seductions whatsoever, and whose love to him is uncorrupted by any opposite lust, or the love of any thing displeasing to him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• Boyle is famous now not because she has an incredible singing voice - which, let's face it, she hasn't; she has a good singing voice and that rare but not unknown talent of possessing perfect pitch - but because she is aesthetically "displeasing" (she is over 25, doesn't appear to have great knowledge of personal grooming and looks much older than her real age - 47). Irish Blogs
• And that whatever action can have no effect either upon one's self, or any other person, and is neither pleas - ing nor displeasing to God, cannot be called cither virtu - ous or vicious. The Dignity of Human Nature, Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ...
• Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government. Waverley
• According to The tenants of Shinto, all White animals are sacred Kami spirits that you mess with at the peril of displeasing the Gods. Would You Keep an Albino Gamefish?
• Of so very many things, of failure, of displeasing, of not understanding, of not being equal and even worrying how my switchy feelings may get in the way of it all. June 1st, 2004