pleaser
a person or thing that is pleasing or appealing, often to a specified group: This book is a pleaser for readers who like their sci-fi livened up with emotional complexity.
a person whose general habit or chief aim is to please or satisfy others: You are a mom pleaser; you’ll say or do anything to make her happy. A leader must be sensitive to the opinions of every section of their constituency, but without being a people pleaser.
Origin of pleaser
1Other words from pleaser
- self-pleas·er, noun
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How to use pleaser in a sentence
"Creep," "No Scrubs," and "Unpretty," obviously, were huge crowd pleasers.
TLC Reunites for a New York City Concert. Dreams Do Come True | Kevin Fallon | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJacob Bernstein on why the Academy snubbed Bill Cunningham New York, Senna, and other crowd-pleasers.
Oscar’s Documentary Myopia: Popular Films Don’t Get Nominated | Jacob Bernstein | February 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST“The crowd pleasers were usually the most accurate costumes, or the ones that clearly took the most work,” says Ablan.
Many flesh-pleasers flatter themselves with better titles, being deceived by such means as these: 1.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard BaxterSee also p. 48, on ‘palate-pleasers;’ and Dickson's opinion of the ‘rarest dishes and best meats.’
History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 | Henry Thomas Buckle
We are required to act, in all these relations, not as men-pleasers, but as the servants of God.
Faces of Paris men go by, their wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores.
Ulysses | James JoyceFor I would not have you to be men-pleasers, but to please God, as ye do please Him.
The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious | William Dool Killen
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