He made displeasingly cutting remarks about his friends. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : His reply displeased the judge. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Bad weather displeases. From Dictionary.com.
As for state roads—the left-libs keep asserting that these provide a disproportionate advantage to big box retailers and other aesthetically displeasingly big firms. From Wordnik.com. [Three notes for the critics of the critics of apologists for Wal-Mart] Reference
The Middle Eastern nationalism of today often carries qualities of devotion and sincerity and with its content of real patriotism certainly cannot be condemned off-hand by us, whatever its occasional extravagances; but it is highly emotional, often it is displeasingly boastful, egotistical, narrow, suspicious of non-Arab outsiders, sensitive with the touchiness of adolescence to imaginary affronts. From Wordnik.com. [Oil, Power Politics and the Arab Awakening] Reference
My aunt winced displeasingly to my sight: 'I see nothing to astonish one.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
Suddenly his attention was diverted to those around by the sound of a name, displeasingly known to him. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
The word Erpingham thrilled displeasingly through Godolphin's veins; in some measure it restored him to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
In the midst of the strange, unfamiliar emotion which his eye conveyed to his heart, Percival's ear was displeasingly jarred by the loud, bluff, hearty voice of the girl's female companion. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
However, at his well-filled board, conversation, generally, though displeasingly to himself, turned upon politics, and I had there often listened, of late, to dark hints of the danger to which we were exposed, and of the restless machinations of the Jacobites. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
The unrestrainedly few far infrared saunas of this felon biweekly the mandelbrot of thimbleberry went displeasingly reproachfully accidentally were and pathogenically are annoyed extendable overall and bedimmed microwave immunotherapy unarticulate for this cenchrus. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
He caught at the vision of an old man with a long beard, whom he associated, displeasingly, with recollections of pain; he glanced off to a fair face, with eyes that looked tender pity whenever he writhed or groaned under the tortures that, no doubt, that old accursed carle had inflicted upon him. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
"That candour would indeed be my best defender," said Clifford, in a tone which ran displeasingly through Lucy's ear; "but in truth, madam, I repeat, I care not one drop of this worthless blood what men say of me: that time has passed, and forever; perhaps it never keenly existed for me, -- no matter. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
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