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dislike
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dislike \dis*like"\, n. 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 ...
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.
Beatles, albums see albums by the Beatles Apple Group contract, 569, 580 avant-garde, 231, 234, 329, 372 Beatlemania, xii, 73, 95, 171, 186 biographies, xii break-up, 576-88 at the Cavern, 80-83 as celebrities, 128 changes in show business, 139 disbanded, 553 dislike of image, 303-4 dispute about Allen Klein, 547-9 and drugs, 184-92, 198-9, 347, 378, first record, 37 formed from the Quarry Men, 52 and Greek Island, 377-80 in Hamburg, clothes, 71, 76, 101 at the Indra, 57-8 at the Kaiserkeller, 59-63 deported, 73 houses, 167-70 and the Maharishi, 396-404 Mayfair flat, 102 modern music, 330-1 origin of name, 52 recordings rejected by Decca, 89 sleeve design for, Abbey Road, Sgt.
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.
Sects and Professions in Religion are numerous and successive - General effect of false Zeal - Deists - Fanatical Idea of Church Reformers - The Church of Rome - Baptists - Swedenborgians - Univerbalists - Jews - Methodists of two Kinds: Calvinistic and Arminian - The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast - His contempt of Learning - Dislike to sound Morality: why - His Ideas of Conversion - His Success and Pretensions to Humility.
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.