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Anger that filed the paperwork instead of throwing the punch.
means A formal, restrained sense of annoyance or disapproval — the feeling, or its icy expression, when something has not met your standards.
from Built straightforwardly from 'dis-' (undoing or reversing) plus 'pleasure,' entering English through French in the medieval period. Pleasure itself traces back to the Latin 'placere,' meaning 'to please' — a root it shares with 'placate' and 'placid.' So displeasure is literally the un-pleasing, the quiet withdrawal of that placid, pleased feeling, left formal enough to be announced rather than shouted.
- royal usage
- monarchs historically exiled people with this one word
- etymology
- literally means the absence of pleasure, nothing more
- workplace version
- a manager's calmest sentence, somehow the scariest
- compared to anger
- anger yells, displeasure just remembers everything