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dislike
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Word definitions for dislike in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group [syn: disfavor , disfavour , disapproval ] a feeling of aversion or antipathy; "my dislike of him was instinctive" [ant: liking ] v. have or feel a dislike or distaste for; "I really dislike ...
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.
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.
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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.