Meaning of best pleased | Babel Free

Definitions

displeased, upset, disgruntled

British, idiomatic

Examples

“Satisfaction levels among performers might be generally high, but there are whispers from old-school theatre folk that they're not best pleased about Hollywood coming in and stealing the limelight.”

“Can't say we'd be best pleased if the terrifying sound of explosives was going on underneath our bedroom window, but the assembled crowd seem to enjoy it.”

“They said: “I'm hardly best pleased to receive this and neither, I presume, are all the others whose confidentiality has been breached by this.””

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