Please and Tries

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Please verb - To give satisfaction to.

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Tries is an antonym for please.

Nearby Word: pleased

Definitions of Please not found.

Please is an antonym for tries in topics: bother, attempt, experiment, bring before a judge.

Please Like Me: the protagonist's depressed mother tries to commit suicide in the first episode and repeats her attempt - yet again unsuccessfully - in the first series finale.

Source: Driven To Suicide / Live-Action TV
When she introduces herself to Fitz, he tries several different pronunciations of "Archeus", none of which seem to please her.

Source: Western Animation / 12 oz. Mouse
In the Broadway version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, this happens to the Beast when he tries to use the word 'please'.

Source: Gagging on Your Words

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Tries and Please. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/please/tries

Please & Tries. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/please/tries>.

Tries or Please. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/please/tries.

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