pleased

[please]

Experiencing or manifesting pleasure

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Experiencing pleasure.

Adjective S.
experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news"

Adjective
experiencing or manifesting pleasure

Adjective S.
feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"


imp. & p. p.
of Please

a.
Experiencing pleasure.


Pleased

Pleased , a. Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly , adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.

Experiencing pleasure.

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Usage Examples

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

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