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distaste

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distasted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Distasting .] Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike. Although my will distaste what it elected. --Shak. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB look ▪ He looked with distaste at the rotting timbers above them. ▪ Kathy looked at him with distaste . ▪ She looked at them with distaste in their sensible shoes and thick bandage. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Gina ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy. 2 (context obsolete English) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. 3 (context obsolete English) discomfort; uneasiness. 4 Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. vb. 1 (context ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from dis- + taste .

Usage examples of distaste.

He paid attention to her only because she was the wife of John Adams, she saw with distaste.

Any one of the crew could have done it, of course but Allo had already come off as too aggressive, and TamTam would probably confuse the poor Earthie, and as for Calia, she had a pretty strong distaste for the Earthborn, which might make things difficult.

She had never been a Bonapartist, yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen.

Page he would make an inquiry, but he did so with distaste, feeling as if he were being disloyal to Lierin by allowing the question to come into his mind.

She stooped and picked it up, eyeing the half-dissolved object with distaste.

He pressed his way through the fairgoers with dignified distaste, and emerged from the vaulting five-story Ptolan Exhibit Hall.

Standing nearby, Lord Holger Windsound turned away, his Up curling in distaste.

Lee, in translating this, added that the feeling was common among Vietnamese, North and South, and was matched by a Cambodian contempt for Vietnamese, and exceeded by the distaste felt by Laotians for Thais, and vice versa.

And their distaste for the icon of the lovely lady with her bonny babe -- Mariolatry, graven images!

At the conclusion of her interview, she had risen and offered her hand, and Steinmann had stared at it with distaste.

Carlina di Asturien looked with distaste on the embroidered veils and the blue velvet over-gown, set with pearls from Temora, that she would wear for the handfasting ceremony.

For there is nothing that more distastes and disrelishes many people among us than just that we should name to them our favourite books, and read a passage out of them, and ask them to say what they think of such wonderful words.

Katherine looked about her with horror and distaste, her eyes beginning to smart with the effects of smoke from the sea-coal fires, around which felons huddled for warmth.

And I also suspect you were assigned to my case because the honchos too know your distaste for research.

Save for a modicum of camp mud along soles and heels, his jackboots were as shiny as his polished cuirass and helmet, his rich clothing clean and whole, and he made no attempt to mask his distaste at the filthy, rusty, tatterdemalion aspects of the three other officers.