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Word:
pleasing
IPA transcription: [pl'izɪŋ]
Pronunciations of pleasing
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
pleasing
Meaning:
giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
pleasing
Meaning:
the act of one who pleases
Usage examples
There's no pleasing them!'
Thus eaten, it has a mild and pleasing flavour.
The latter is pleasing, certainly, but the former is charming.
He has not one honest desire to please because it is right to be pleasing.
It is a good device for exciting special attention, and it furnishes a pleasing variety.
The skin, more pleasing to the eye than any satin, is milk-white in some, in others lemon-yellow.
She waked up every morning with the one thought of "pleasing." It was the aim and object of her life.
Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.
You come up here all sanctified and vanoplied with respectability and a pleasing post office address to swindle him.
"He has been for some time past greatly attached to one Miss Franklin, a pleasing lively girl, with a large fortune."
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Cock and ball torture
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