DISPLEASING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does displeasing mean? 

• DISPLEASING (adjective)
  The adjective DISPLEASING has 1 sense:

1. causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities

  Familiarity information: DISPLEASING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPLEASING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities

Context example:

displeasing news

Similar:

disconcerting; upsetting (causing an emotional disturbance)

exasperating; infuriating; maddening; vexing (extremely annoying or displeasing)

off-putting (causing annoyance or repugnance)

Also:

ugly (displeasing to the senses)

unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)

Antonym:

pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)

 Context examples 

Janet looked a little surprised to see me lying stiffly on the sofa (I was afraid to move lest it should be displeasing to my aunt), but went on her errand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I begged “his honour would please to excuse me from proceeding any further, because I was very certain that the account he expected from me would be highly displeasing.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: to-morrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without softening one defect; omit no harsh line, smooth away no displeasing irregularity; write under it, 'Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Supposing that I escaped capture in the streets, how was I to make my way into his presence? and how should I, an unknown and displeasing visitor, prevail on the famous physician to rifle the study of his colleague, Dr. Jekyll?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)