The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disrelish \Dis*rel"ish\ (?; see Dis-), n.
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Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
--Burke. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
--Milton.
Disrelish \Dis*rel"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disrelished; p. pr. & vb. n. Disrelishing.]
Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.
--Pope.To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. A lack of relish: distaste vb. 1 (context transitive English) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful. 2 (context transitive English) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
Usage examples of "disrelish".
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.
He disrelished his companion's mincing tone of a monumental security, and yearned for Dartrey or Simeon or Colney to be at his elbow rather than this most commendable of orderly citizens, who little imagined the treacherous revolt from him in the bosom of the gentleman cordially signifying full agreement.
You have been wounded by the sufferings of your friends, and have by this circumstance been hurried into a temper of mind which would be extremely disrelished if known to your countrymen.