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 Bennett, Arnold

I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be displeased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by James, Henry

Depart again in the morning, if you will: we shall neither of us be displeased by then to say farewell, I dare say.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter

Superstition had not utterly extinguished all national feeling in his mind; and he could not but be displeased by the malevolence with which his Celtic supporters regarded the race from which he sprang.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"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 Saintsbury, George