hard-to-please
Example Sentences
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Like Broadcom, Circle has found it hard to please investors who seem to be demanding the moon.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
As a teenager, she was self-conscious about her freckles and found it hard to please her glamorous parents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
And when “And Just Like That” is unconcerned with its audience’s reactions, the show is freed from the burden of trying so hard to please.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2025
For the ones who are hard to please in your life, consider these gifts for 2023.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023
One time when my mother complained about him being so hard to please about food, Papa said, “Hon, what if you’d had to eat a rat?”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
