distaste
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To return to our main theme, Weidel mentions Trump only twice, with evident distaste, in that hour-long conversation.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
One consistent theme: a newfound distaste for once-beloved food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I don’t think it was any secret other council members had a high distaste for her the moment she walked in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
“The sooner we snap out of our distaste for genetic modification, the better.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Even the horses tossed their heads and snorted in distaste.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The stoops of brownstone Brooklyn, on which residents routinely leave freebies for passers-by, are a reliable metric of current literary tastes — and distastes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
With no one else's tastes or distastes or allergies to consider, I discovered new rhythms and flavors.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2022
Surveys of previous generations found that people tended to share both their preferences and vehement distastes with other members of their social classes and backgrounds.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2020
Given your expressed distastes, I will point you toward monosyllabic denotations of cylindrical solidity.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014
Their tastes and distastes were so synonymous; they hated hypocrisy, vulgarity, slovenliness, imitations.
From The Moccasin Maker by Charles Mair
There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange’s study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nor did he become an archer of the Queen's Body-Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.
From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson
My fortune having inured and allured me, even from my infancy, to one sole, singular, and perfect amity, hath verily in some sort distasted me from others....
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
He wanted to win, but he was willing to lose if he must; and above all he distasted the notion of a limit.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
No trial; no condemnation; no execution; and that which I then most distasted, no definite knowledge of what should be my fate.
From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee
But now behold another grub-hunter, which, distasting mud, has discovered an unworked mine in the trunks of trees.
From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken
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