Example sentences for: displeased

How can you use “displeased” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I must confess to being displeased at Stein's having removed my name from the title page of a book only slightly changed from its first edition so that he could insert his own as editor in chief; but that was nothing new for him, as he had deleted from later editions of the ACD the name of its editor in chief, Clarence L. Barnhart, to insert his own.

  • But now Condé Nast will be in the position of saying to displeased subjects of tough pieces: "You want to pull your advertising?

  • The Caribs here, expert with bow and arrow, were demonstrably displeased to see the explorer.

  • In an interview Thursday with La Repubblica of Rome, Khatami said he was "deeply displeased to see that a person who has offended the feelings and the religious beliefs of more than one billion people of the Muslim faith throughout the world should be encouraged in this way, thus perpetuating the conflict between our civilizations."

  • But the Mafia bosses who financed the operation were displeased with its performance; Siegel was murdered in the summer of 1947.


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