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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overplease.

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Examples

  • I'm just waiting for the line "Well, David Cameron can't be overpleased with this result can he?"

    How Does Today Feel? Praguetory 2007

  • 'My brothers will not be overpleased to hear that.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • "You do not seem overpleased with the prospect of my company?" she observed.

    Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

  • My little Japanese servant-boy was in the room, and as I went on with my work I caught an expression on his face from time to time which showed me that he was not overpleased with my performance.

    Peeps at Many Lands: Japan John Finnemore

  • She did not appear overpleased to see her two young friends, whose doings were fully described in the preceding volume.

    The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail Laura Dent Crane

  • I believe the mother was not overpleased at the chastisement, but Graham always comes down upon the boys if he hears of any cruelty.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • "You won't be overpleased when he wants to marry, which he is sure to do just when he's become useful to you."

    Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

  • "Specially if you're not feeling overpleased with life anyway," he added, with a knowing smile.

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

  • It was a handsome couple which came forward, hand quitting hand a shade too tardily, and the blinking eyes yet rapt; but these two were not overpleased at being disturbed, and the man in particular was troubled, as in reason he well might be, by the task assigned him.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • It was a handsome couple which came forward, with hand quitting hand tardily, and with blinking eyes yet rapt: these two were not overpleased at being disturbed, and the man was troubled, as in reason he well might be, by the task assigned him.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

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