displeased, ppl. a.
(dɪsˈpliːzd)
[f. prec. + ed.]
The reverse of pleased; vexed, angry, annoyed.
| 1581 Mulcaster Positions xxix. (1887) 109 The thinges, which do please the displeased infantes. 1609 Shaks. Tr. & Cr. (Qo. 1) Epistle ¶ ij, The most displeased with Playes, are pleasd with his Commedies. 1659 Gentl. Calling (1696) 116 The Heathens had Incantations to recal their displeased Deities. 1840 J. W. Bowden Gregory VII, I. 174 Too wary to put himself into the power of his displeased sovereign. |
¶ For to be displeased, with its constructions, see displease v. 2 c.