Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ill-pleased? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
He was deadly angry at it, he was dipleased, or ill-pleased, with it; he resented it.
We are not ill-pleased that his present biographer has concerned himself rather with the history of the man than with that of the musician.
Little wonder that the Spanish colonists were ill-pleased at the coming of the new neighbors given that the fort was not finished, and the garrison made no resistance.
The trailer reveals that Edna did not design the new Elastigirl costume and is ill-pleased about not being consulted.
Examples from Classical Literature
She, indeed, was ill-pleased with the tidings and felt instinctively that some calamity was about to befall.
His followers were ill-pleased, but agreed to wait, and Carey sent his messenger to the Scots.
When his lordship expressed himself ill-pleased, did he direct you to take them away, or not?
I am now confined to my bed-chamber, seldom venturing to be carried down, unless when company to whom I cannot excuse myself comes, which I am not ill-pleased to find is now very seldom.
The queen thanked them for their concern and assurances and was not ill-pleased at the nature of the address, though the charge against the peers was not strictly true.
Word has it that the king was ill-pleased with my lord and I can only imagine the shameless groveling Norfolk reduced himself to in order to remain in favor.
Some of those who had helped and fitted him out thought he had done a good deed, but others were ill-pleased that he should have so thrown away his money.
They came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons where they found Achilles sitting by his tent and his ships, and ill-pleased he was when he beheld them.
I am ill-pleased, because after having piloted ourselves through such bad times and been driven to every extremity, I thought that now at least, with you at home, I should enjoy some respite.
I liked not this fashion of speech, and when he saw that I was ill-pleased and grieved, instead of falling in with his merry mood, he took up a more earnest vein.
So we went out, but as we passed them I saw the doctors muttering together, for they were ill-pleased and foreboded evil.
The abbess and the purveyor were but ill-pleased to hear what the old man said.
