Verb He joined the football team to please his father. Her parents were pleased by her decision. It pleases me to know that you liked the gift. They're very hard to please.
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Verb
Easy to adjust to please everyone at your table, this recipe uses homemade cashew cream to make an extra silky sauce. Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2022 As a South Asian woman, you’re expected to please everyone, look after everyone, nurture and feed, do everything for everyone and never look after yourself. Akanksha Kamath, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022 Trying to please other people isn't likely to go well at the moment.Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2022 Too many leaders are being so indecisive on the subject trying to please everyone. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 July 2022 To shake off what’s fake, stop trying to please other people in the negative sense, but learn from experience, pick up positive things, lose some negative things. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2022 It’s Paul who rallies her by reminding her that her responsibility isn’t to please everyone. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2022 Thus, any map that House and Senate Democrats favor will have to please House Republicans enough that their three redistricting committee members won’t tank it.oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2021 Can't please everyone: Biden still faces pressure from progressives to cancel an even larger share of debt. Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
Adverb
Naturally, during the 113 years those bells have hung in Mitchell Tower, there have been Hyde Park residents asking if these (expletive) change ringers would please stop. Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English plesen, from Anglo-French plaisir, pleisir, pleire, from Latin placēre; akin to Latin placare to placate and perhaps to Greek plak-, plax flat surface — more at fluke