Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

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."
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cock and ball torture, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Queen Victoria, License CC BY-SA 4.0