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Idiom

best pleased

Meaning

displeased, upset, disgruntled

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“My boss was not best pleased about the late report.”

“The neighbors were not best pleased when the loud music continued well past midnight.”

“The director was clearly not best pleased by the sudden resignation of his most experienced lead researcher.”

Examples

simple

“My boss was not best pleased about the late report.”

contextual

“The neighbors were not best pleased when the loud music continued well past midnight.”

complex

“The director was clearly not best pleased by the sudden resignation of his most experienced lead researcher.”

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