The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mislike \Mis*like"\ (m[i^]s*l[imac]k"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Misliked (m[i^]s*l[imac]kt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Misliking.] To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man.
Who may like or mislike what he says.
--I. Taylor.
Mislike \Mis*like"\, n. Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context archaic English) To displease. (from 9th c.) 2 To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to. (from 13th c.)
Usage examples of "mislike".
He glared at her, having still another reason to mislike her intensely.
No matter how you may mislike the bias, the Witan would resent the interference of a woman.
Prince of Morocco: Mislike me not for my complexion-- The shadowed livery of the burning sun.
I do not care for companions, whether they be gallants or car-men, since they leave me bereft of that intercourse with my own self which aids my work: to spend too much time in company leads me into so great a storm of doubting and misliking that I scarcely know myself.
He seemed to recoil at my words, and began pacing up and down the study before breaking into a great storm of doubting and misliking of the spirits.
But those from Ettinor and Desor, and others, I mislike what they say.
At length they began to accuse one another of theft, and to set the dishes and morsels of meat in order, one by another, because they would learne what was taken away, whereby one of them was compelled to say thus to his fellow : Is it reason to breake promise and faith in this sort, by stealing away the best meat, and to sell it to augment thy good, and yet neverthelesse to have thy part in the residue that is left : if our partnership doe mislike thee, we will be partners and brothers in other things, but in this we will breake of : for I perceive that the great losse which I sustain, will at length be a cause of great discord betweene us.
The Normans, misliking the gormandise of Canutus, ordained after their arrival that no table should be covered above once in the day, which Huntingdon imputeth to their avarice.
Ye noble knights (said then the Squire of Dames)Well may ye speed in so praiseworthy paine:But sith the Sunne now ginnes to slake his beames,In deawy vapours of the westerne maine,And lose the teme out of his weary waine,Mote not mislike you also to abateYour zealous hast, till morrow next againeBoth light of heauen, and strength of men relate:Which if ye please, to yonder castle turne your gate.
An', o' course, should Wee Jock hisself be taken back to the Last World then I'll get the name o' Wee Jock, which isnae to say that I mislike the name o' No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, ye ken.
An apology was a small enough price to pay, but Catelyn misliked this petty condition of Lord Walder's at once.
There was a mocking edge to his voice that Tyrion misliked, but he was not about to let the Dornishman provoke him.
He didn't know which Eadyth he misliked most—the shrewish, arrogant crone who had plagued him with complaints from the moment they first met, or the silent, humbled one who jabbed at his conscience now.
And he misliked the fact that she accepted other women in his life so easily.
She misliked the scheme, but misliked still more the hint that she would put her comfort above her loyal officer's clear need.