Crossword clues for distaste
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distasting.]
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Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
Although my will distaste what it elected.
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To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
--Sir J. Davies. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
--Drayton.
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, n.
Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
--Bacon.-
Discomfort; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste.
--Milton.Syn: Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. i. To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.]
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to distaste.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 obsolete transitive English) To dislike. 2 (context intransitive English) to be distasteful; to taste bad 3 (context obsolete transitive English) To offend; to disgust; to displease. 4 (context obsolete transitive English) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
WordNet
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.