Displeasing

The fact that you might find this aesthetically displeasing is no kind of evidence for the idea that markets actually are the magic solution you seek. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I would not like to be the man that spoke a word displeasing to ye with those eyes of yours. ❋ Margaret (1891)

When one of these has a little cunning, he passes his time in the utmost satisfaction to himself and his friends; for his position is never to report or speak a displeasing thing to his friend. ❋ Various (1887)

What deterred her was not so much the idea of displeasing her lover, who would have looked upon such a journey as bad form, as the vague fear of awakening the slumbering shadow. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

For though one should speak ten thousand words well, if there happen to be one little word displeasing to you, because not sufficiently intelligible or accurate, you make no account of the many good words, but lay hold of the little word, and are very zealous in setting it up as something impious and guilty; in order that, when you are judged with the very same judgment by God, you may have a much heavier account to render for your great audacities, whether evil actions, or bad interpretations which you obtain by falsifying the truth. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)

Boyle is famous now not because she has an incredible singing voice - which, let's face it, she hasn't; she has a good singing voice and that rare but not unknown talent of possessing perfect pitch - but because she is aesthetically "displeasing" (she is over 25, doesn't appear to have great knowledge of personal grooming and looks much older than her real age - 47). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Between the Mexican Revolution and the aesthetically displeasing modernization of the post-war years, it was losing its charm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to The tenants of Shinto, all White animals are sacred Kami spirits that you mess with at the peril of displeasing the Gods. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ARs aren't functionally better than other semi-autos, they are more expensive generally, aesthetically displeasing to some of us, and they're generally less well built and less accurate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm glad Obama said something about how displeasing this was because Gates shouldn't have been arrested. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not since the 17th century, when playwrights were regularly put in prison for displeasing politicians, or even the long period of censorship that lasted until 1968, has British theatre had any need to conceal itself. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They could hardly be more different in temperament and technique, though both have paid a steep price for displeasing the censors. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

The outer ring people are farther from everybody else, so quite often the restaurants out there are shooting for displeasing as few people as possible, while still remaining a step above well-known chain restaurants in their genre. ❋ Seagrit (2009)

Brazilian Shakespeare may sound nuts: in fact, the play shimmies remarkably well to a samba rhythm, while the patois-inflected accents give the verse an unusual but far from displeasing lilt. ❋ Alfred Hickling (2010)

If they are especially attuned to the expectations of adults—if they are eager to please others and win approval—they quickly come face-to-face with a dilemma: how can they get what they want without displeasing those around them? ❋ Susan Engel (2011)