Displeasing

Displeasing enough that in 1938, the Virginia General Assembly voted to burn the report in the furnace of the state Capitol.

A burned page from Virginia's liquor past 2010

Displeasing others is also not upsetting to them -- so most punishments fail to change their behavior, other than prompting attempts to avoid getting caught.

Maia Szalavitz: Missing Empathy 2008

Displeasing Thomas Butler, as Samuel so often did, meant burning in hell forever.

The Parent Trap 2008

So then I wanted it to be "Many Things are Displeasing," but they didn't like that and changed it to "New Year's Eve," but I didn't like that and at the last minute like, last night sent them a list of other titles to pick from: "Come at Midnight"

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Displeasing Chabano had meant death to slave women, even in the past year.

Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

Displeasing Kim could mean imprisonment, as it did for the guard sent to a gulag for using one of Kim's favorite ashtrays.

The Seattle Times 2011

Displeasing company, incommodious apartments, filthiness, and riot, lost the circumstance by which they could most effectually disgust, when I was not compelled to remain with them.

Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796

Hard _Censures_ now bestow'd upon these poor Sufferers, cannot but be very Displeasing unto our Lord, who, as He said, about some that had been Butchered by a _Pilate_, in _Luc.

The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches Cotton Mather 1695

Longer Standardized Tests Are Planned, Displeasing Some School Leaders

NYT > Home Page By WINNIE HU 2011

‘Displeasing!’ — said the nun, with emphasis. — ‘We are idle talkers; we do not weigh the meaning of the words we use; DISPLEASING is a poor word.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004