ill-pleased

If the interior is ill-pleased, the heart at its center is ill-pleased.

food-cheated muscles recalling their sex Jerry Ratch 2011

The Princess said nothing, but was evidently struck, and affected, and not ill-pleased, perhaps, at having given rise to feelings of interest so flattering to her as an authoress.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

I passed into my own room, not ill-pleased that my father was absent, notwithstanding I had thought it proper to rebuke James for having so contrived it, I disarranged my books, to give them the appearance of a graceful confusion on the table, and laying my foils (useless since your departure) across the mantelpiece, that the lady might see I was TAM MARTE

Redgauntlet 2008

The king himself was not ill-pleased at this, for he thought that Cyrus would take delight in the honour the people showed him.

Cyropaedia 2007

The Baron, ill-pleased at seeing the Countess under the spell of the dangerous sibyl who had drawn her to her side gave one of those looks which a man can give — potent over a blinded heart, but simply ridiculous in the eyes of a woman who is beginning to criticise the man who has attracted her.

Domestic Peace 2007

The Baron, ill-pleased at seeing the Countess under the spell of the dangerous sibyl who had drawn her to her side gave one of those looks which a man can give — potent over a blinded heart, but simply ridiculous in the eyes of a woman who is beginning to criticise the man who has attracted her.

Domestic Peace 2007

Then she spake to him: Black Squire, I am now come home, and will lead thee no further; I was deeming that we should have slept in the wood a good way from this, and then would I have brought thee on thy way tomorrow morning; but the eagerness of thine heart hath made thy feet so speedy, that we be here somewhat rathe, and yet I am not ill-pleased therewith.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Upon their return to Rome they were but ill-pleased with the standard of entertainment offered by the ruder and less sophisticated native talent; they imported Greek and Syrian mistresses.

Satyricon 2007

In contrast, my uncle spoke of his wife's discontent and ambition with painful honesty, acknowledging that she was ill-pleased with my father's elevation in status, as if somehow his rise had compromised my uncle's position.

Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

Tsugawa the scenery, though on a smaller scale, is of much the same character as hitherto — hills wooded to their tops, cleft by ravines which open out occasionally to divulge more distant ranges, all smothered in greenery, which, when I am ill-pleased, I am inclined to call “rank vegetation.”

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004