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hard to please

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Adj.1.hard to please - (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please"
hard-to-please
demanding - requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"


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The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities.
Fables by Aesop View in context
Every man on board seemed well content, and they must have been hard to please if they had been otherwise, for it is my belief there was never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah put to sea.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
I think so, indeed; we should be hard to please if we were not.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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