Pleased with means happy or satisfied with someone or something: a result, a piece of work, a purchase, a person. It sounds a little more restrained and polite than happy with, so you often hear it at work: The client is pleased with the results.
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be pleased with + person/result/thing; pleased about + news/event; pleased to + verb
- My boss was pleased with the report and sent it straight to the director.
- I'm not very pleased with my haircut — it's much shorter than I asked for.
- The teacher seemed pleased with how much we had improved since September.
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First versionI was very pleasant with my exam results.
RevisionI was very pleased with my exam results.
Pleasant and pleased look very alike, so they're easy to mix up. Pleasant describes something that gives pleasure: a pleasant evening, a pleasant person. So I was very pleasant means “I was a very nice person”. To talk about your feelings, use pleased: pleased with my results.
For news or an event, people more often say pleased about: We're pleased about the decision. And pleased to + verb is a polite way of saying glad: I'm pleased to tell you that you've passed.
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The client looked at the final design and said she was very ___ with it.
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pleased — The client is describing how she feels about the design, so it's pleased. Native speakers don't say pleasant with it: pleasant describes someone who is nice to others.
Describe something you bought recently. Name it and explain what you're pleased with.
I'm really pleased with my new laptop because it's light and the battery lasts all day.
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