disrelish

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No melodramatic toughies, his cowpunchers are happy-go-lucky lads with a natural disrelish to being told they can't do that.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was noted for a profound appreciation of his dinner, of which he never had enough, for a disrelish for work, and a remarkable knowledge of the arts of hypocrisy.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

But at the same time, notwithstanding his pride, a certain disrelish remained, for which he could not account as he was not sufficiently developed psychologically.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Thus old memories mar the actual triumph;85 Thus the doing savors of disrelish; Thus achievement lacks a gracious somewhat; O'er-importuned brows becloud the mandate, Carelessness or consciousness—the gesture.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Hazlitt, in discussing him at length in the second lecture on the “Comic Writers,” confesses a disrelish for his style.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob