Indeed, any woman who has been told to "smile, love, it might never happen" will know that even when not a member of the royal family, moving one's facial muscles into certain configurations remains displeasing to some.
Houston's downtown district is boring and its neighbourhoods aesthetically displeasing.
The consequences of displeasing these various groups can be huge as shown by the failure of the agrochemical industry to make the case for genetically modified food, or the drug makers' botched attempts to protect their patent rights in poor countries.How can a humble PR man deal with all this?
All were rated more positively than negatively on their performance; only Natalie Bennett of the Greens came close to displeasing more viewers than she impressed.
"Displeasing people; pockets of disillusion; impatience and frustration.
Where Mr Clegg did say things displeasing to his Tory coalition partners, they were mostly in the form of veiled push-backs in specific policy areas.
The videos, translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, Russian and Spanish, have gone to over 60 countries, greatly displeasing the authorities in Cuba, Iran and Zimbabwe, among others.The centre will not help anyone directly to overthrow a government.
But too many on his side believe in a version of America from which displeasing facts or arguments are ruthlessly excluded.
The prospect of a career in the church was not displeasing to the thin, pale, and at times sickly boy, for he had an inclination toward learning, a facility for debate, and a relish for the prospect of governing the lives of others.
But in its simplest essentials, the principle is acknowledged by everyone: the person who places all the furniture on one half of the living room while leaving the other half empty finds the arrangement aesthetically displeasing because the room lacks balance.
It is quite likely that Queen Victoria never said it, and to trot it out every time anything happens that might be displeasing to the Queen is not amusing at all.
