be displeased by
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He had affected to be displeased by the doctor's air of treating his case as though it was deprived of all importance.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
I trust that my old "friend unseen," Stanislas, will not be displeased by this proof that I remember with appreciation her many expressions of esteem for my unworthiness.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
If any be displeased by the result, I can but submit that my verses are my own, and that this is how I would have them read.
From Poems by William Ernest Henley
Dom Geronimo, who lost no word of the interview, seemed to be displeased by Mowbray’s adroit distinction between the occupant of the throne and a prince of the royal blood.
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
"Will you promise me, then," said Amadour, "that you will not be displeased by what I wish to tell you, nor yet alarmed at it, until you have heard me to the end?"
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
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