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What is another word for displeasing?

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Adjective

Causing offense or disgust

Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed

Causing distress, dread or alarm

Causing annoyance, impatience, or mild anger

Inadequate, substandard or, not satisfactory

Causing unhappiness or discomfort

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

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Adjective

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Causing offense or disgust

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

ill-favored^US

fetid^US

foetid^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

off-colour^UK

off-color^US

unfavorable^US

strictly for the birds

not quite the done thing

as plain as a pikestaff

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

too horrible for words

meagre^UK

meager^US

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“It was not entirely displeasing to be the centre of such a drama.”

Adjective

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Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed

libellous^UK

libelous^US

politically incorrect

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

turning up your nose at

looking down your nose at

unfavorable^US

minimising^UK

dishonoring^US

minimizing^US

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Adjective

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Causing distress, dread or alarm

somber^US

sombre^UK

agonising^UK

agonizing^US

humorless^US

humourless^UK

unfavorable^US

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

gray^US

grey^UK

meagre^UK

meager^US

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

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Adjective

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Causing annoyance, impatience, or mild anger

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

bedeviling^US

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

labored^US

laboured^UK

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Adjective

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Inadequate, substandard or, not satisfactory

leaving a lot to be desired

meagre^UK

meager^US

not all it's cracked up to be

leaving much to be desired

off-colour^UK

strictly for the birds

off-color^US

less than satisfactory

not up to expectations

of no financial value

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Adjective

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Causing unhappiness or discomfort

sombre^UK

somber^US

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

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Verb

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To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting someone's dander up

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

rubbing the wrong way

putting someone's nose out of joint

ruffling one's feathers

giving a hard time

making somebody's hackles rise

getting on one's nerves

rattling someone's cage

hurting somebody's feelings

scandalising^UK

getting your dander up

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

getting up someone's nose

getting your hackles up

freaking out

driving bananas

rubbing you up the wrong way

getting someone's wick

getting across someone

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

driving you up the wall

filling with loathing

making someone's hackles rise

getting on someone's nerves

getting someone's hackles up

ruffling someone's feathers

getting under someone's skin

getting in someone's hair

trying someone's patience

getting on someone's tits

getting someone's back up

pushing someon's buttons

causing annoyance to

causing resentment to

dejecting

getting a rise out of

working up

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

upsetting the applecart

harming

making someone fed up

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

pushing the buttons of

treading on someone's toes

breaking the heart of

abusing

slandering

dumping on

giving the cold shoulder

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

bending someone's ear

making your gorge rise

giving cause for complaint

paralysing^UK

hitting like ton of bricks

raising someone's eyebrows

taking the wind out of your sails

completely surprising

traumatising^UK

thunderstriking

throwing a curve

shaking out of your complacency

paralyzing^US

setting someone back on their heels

victimizing^US

causing discomfort to

trying the patience of

putting on the spot

victimising^UK

taking the piss out of

terrorizing^US

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

making it hot for someone

making someone scratch their head

inflicting anguish on

ragging on

making things hot for someone

terrorising^UK

running up the wrong way

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

psyching out

insisting on

inciting

pushing one's buttons

belabouring^UK

putting to some trouble

bringing pressure to bear on

tiring out

leaning on

putting pressure on

making severe demands on

searching high heaven

driving you out of your mind

driving you off your head

making you see red

driving you round the twist

driving out of mind

driving you to distraction

making somebody's blood boil

driving you round the bend

sticking the knife into

getting the knife into

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

making self-conscious

owning

showing up

wisecracking

causing inconvenience to

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

disengaging

detaching

sending over the edge

hurting the feelings of

knocking the wind out of

harshing one's mellow

aggressing

putting out of countenance

throwing into a tizzy

catching one short

putting in a hole

gagging

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

tyrannizing^US

belaboring^US

tyrannising^UK

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

bringing tears to your eyes

carrying a heavy load

knocking the stuffing out of

breaking someone's heart

harshing someone's mellow

giving someone the blues

reducing to tears

making desolate

making despondent

getting into a dither

putting someone off their stroke

making nervous

causing someone to lose their composure

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

having an adverse effect on

striking down

going against the grain

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

satirizing^US

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

disorientating

causing to be at a stand

messing with one's head

setting someone thinking

satirising^UK

pulling someone's leg

going through the mill

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“May I never laugh at their mistakes, or resort to ridicule when they displease me.”

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