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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dislike
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
intense dislike
▪ He had taken an intense dislike to Robert.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ Of the six tasks, ironing is most disliked: three-quarters of the sample report a negative attitude.
▪ What he disliked most of all was its tyranny.
▪ Which work have I most disliked?
▪ The air of friendliness was the kind that he disliked most.
▪ Often the traits we can't bear in other people tend to be the ones that we dislike most about ourselves.
■ NOUN
people
▪ Why may some local people dislike this?
▪ Were they reluctant to open themselves, as the process required, to people they disliked and disagreed with?
▪ Why are cats attracted to people who dislike them?
▪ Hicks had discovered that people disliked his looking at them directly and, out of courtesy, he often refrained.
▪ Some people disliked this book very much.
▪ And most things that make people dislike Maastricht are aspects of the Community that predated it.
▪ Many people dislike the taste of bran and find it hard to swallow.
▪ Many people complained that they disliked living in villages, and particularly among ` strangers'.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cordially dislike/loathe etc
▪ It was a happy day when it dawned on me that there was no actual impediment to my cordially disliking both lots.
sb's likes and dislikes
▪ Don't let personal likes and dislikes get in the way of the job.
▪ Art can be created by groups, producing output that is a synthesis of their likes and dislikes.
▪ As children grow older they will become more consciously aware of the likes and dislikes of those who care for them.
▪ Employees were asked about their likes and dislikes, about general working conditions, and about their feelings toward supervisors.
▪ There are only subjective likes and dislikes, and one should not speak of value at all.
▪ These are all factors that are essentially personal, and we are all different in our likes and dislikes.
▪ This column takes a look at local cooks, their culinary likes and dislikes and favorite recipes.
▪ This is when likes and dislikes of others are first expressed.
▪ We all have different likes and dislikes, different tastes in food, music, films and clothes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eldridge was a quiet man who disliked social occasions.
▪ I dislike having to get up so early in the morning.
▪ Muriel disliked Paul intensely.
▪ She now seriously disliked her former friend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Born in Silvertown, within sound of the old boat-builders' yards, he disliked silence.
▪ Hicks had discovered that people disliked his looking at them directly and, out of courtesy, he often refrained.
▪ I forget now why we disliked each other, but stare contests were definitely the weapons of choice.
▪ I have got to the stage where I totally dislike them, so it is off to the opticians next week.
▪ I mean, that really, I really dislike that.
▪ She disliked the smell of his scent, but was determined to do her duty.
▪ When Jane arrives, Emma determines to dislike her no longer, but to admire her elegance and virtue instead.
▪ When Koju visited with the jeep, he noted this and he disliked them for it.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
intense
▪ Second, he shows an intense dislike of his new position, and a continuing desire to resign.
personal
▪ All his personal dislike of Mosley was reanimated.
▪ It was merely an expression of her own personal dislike.
▪ I allowed my personal dislike of the man to surface when I should have remained detached.
violent
▪ She was swamped by a wave of impotent anger at and violent dislike for the man whose dogged persistence bordered on persecution.
▪ But, you see, I had taken a violent dislike to the short man.
▪ Although Mr Utterson could not see his face, he felt a strong, almost violent, dislike for the stranger.
■ VERB
express
▪ However, Kingfisher's shareholders are known to have expressed dislike of a demerger, particularly with stock markets falling.
▪ Bronson liked Marcus best, and expressed a dislike for Carroll.
▪ He, rightly in my view, expresses his dislike for the constant advertisements.
▪ Simon was not reticent in expressing his dislike for the Jaguar-driving members who had previously snubbed him.
▪ Hernandez and Ruelas were just sounding boards for the fans to express a dislike for De La Hoya.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Churchhill was said to have a dislike for unnecessary formality.
▪ My intense dislike for him seemed to grow day by day.
▪ She could not hide her personal dislike of the man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An interviewer who happens to be very short may take an instant dislike to having a general manager who is much taller.
▪ They took an immediate dislike to one another.
▪ This is when likes and dislikes of others are first expressed.
▪ Your dislike for Maman was handed down to me, wasn't it?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dislike

dislike \dis*like"\, n.

  1. A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.

    God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin.
    --Hammond.

    The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike.
    --Hannah More.

    We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox.
    --J. Morley.

    His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories.
    --A. W. Ward.

  2. Discord; dissension. [Obs.]
    --Fairfax.

    Syn: Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. -- Dislike, Aversion, Reluctance, Repugnance, Disgust, Antipathy. Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but antipathy, repugnance, disgust, and aversion are more intense phases of dislike. Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an aversion to or for business. Reluctance and repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (repugnance being the stronger); as, a reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a repugnance to the submission required. Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness. Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a reluctance and repugnance to what crosses their will; a disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by antipathies for which they can give no good reason.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dislike

1540s (implied in disliking), hybrid which ousted native mislike as the opposite of like (v.). Related: Disliked; disliking. English in 16c. also had the excellent dislove "hate, cease to love," but it did not survive.

Wiktionary
dislike

n. An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion. vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.) (16th-19th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like. (from 16th c.)

WordNet
dislike
  1. n. an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group [syn: disfavor, disfavour, disapproval]

  2. a feeling of aversion or antipathy; "my dislike of him was instinctive" [ant: liking]

  3. v. have or feel a dislike or distaste for; "I really dislike this salesman" [ant: like]

Usage examples of "dislike".

Confrontation is not a large part of his character and Abraham, unlike his own son Joshua, both fears and dislikes his father.

Lee may have been justified in some of his anger at Franklin, Adams felt, but Lee was badly cast in his role, a dreadful aggravation to Franklin and also to the French, who not only disliked him but distrusted him, which was more serious.

Abigail, whose dislike of the press, dating from the attacks on Adams by London newspapers a decade before, had nearly reached the breaking point.

It should be noted, however, that if the President fails to act, or if he adopts a narrow construction of a statute which he dislikes, and on this ground professes inability to act, the only remedy available against him is impeachment.

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The two women had taken an instant dislike to one another upon meeting many years before and that dislike had grown steadily worse since Amala had become the consort of Commodore Lexis, the OIC of the Ministry of Public Education.

The English Jew, who is often strictly orthodox but entirely anglicized in his habits, is less disliked than the European refugee who has probably not been near a synagogue for thirty years.

Many were old-school Arabists who abhorred the use of force against Iraq and generally disliked even the sanctions and inspections.

Steward Peter had expected them to dislike their women being trained as home-front arbalists, but they had accepted the idea, though their jokes were unremitting.

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Between Babbitt, Senior, and Captain Sam Hunniwell, the latter President of the Orham National Bank and also a vigorous politician, the dislike had always been strong.

Phineas Babbitt, however, continued to express dislike, or, at the most, indifference.

Kethol wondered if that was just to convince the locals the two court barons were there to keep an eye on each other or if they honestly disliked each other.

Although she knew er father bar Robbie, and Beatrice, too, disliked him almost Bch, that had been something else, and she had bar with it.

Professors and students disliked to be taken so far from their lodgings and their beerhouses, and the old university had been quite within the city.