hard-to-please
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6.8
- adjective
- Her eyes were extremely black; even the most hard-to-please person on earth would not find fault with them.
Examples
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Dealing with hard-to-please brides and grooms, what packages to offer,
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The chef is known for his exquisite dishes, but even he finds it challenging to impress his hard-to-please customers.
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I mean, I mean, it's so hard to please five women in one dress if they were acting as the star of the show.
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Each of the entrepreneurs occasionally deals with a hard-to-please customer.
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These behemoths convey some of the largest, hardest-to-please throngs of air travelers on earth.
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I made this tonight and it was delicious; even my hard-to-please hubby liked it, and even better, my 2-year-old picky eater gobbled it up!
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While he managed to win the trust of many Maronites, his success in collaborating with Amal depended on maintaining a working relationship with a hard-to-please regime in Damascus.
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As a designer, she often creates unique styles that even the most hard-to-please fashion critics admire.
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The movie received mixed reviews, but it surprisingly won over many hard-to-please audiences.
Synonyms
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4.1
Needing a lot of time, effort, or attention
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4.7
Being hard to please about food or small details
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4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
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3.9
Hard to please when choosing things like clothes or food
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7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
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6.1
A person who is not easily satisfied and often complains
Antonyms
How Demanding
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Morphology
Etymology
Hard-to-please is a plain English phrase made of hard and please, where hard means 'difficult' and please means 'to make happy or satisfied'. So, a hard-to-please person is someone who is not easily satisfied and often has high demands.