distaste

On RateMyProfessors, students remark on Boyagoda’s heavy assignments, tough grading and distaste for cellphones, but also hail his “comedy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Gutierrez has been critical of AI in the past, expressing distaste for the tool through a series of cheeky memes shared in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Keeping the headline act of O'Neal in rude health was fundamental amid huge fluctuations in his weight and a notorious distaste for keeping fit in the off-season.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Its social contract is built on uncompromising moral standards, an emphasis on resolute social justice, and, of course, a distaste for those who fail to properly share those values.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

Beijing’s distaste for North Korean defectors, as enforced by police and border soldiers, is well understood by farmers, factory foremen, and other bosses in China’s northeast provinces.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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 joys and their sorrows, their love and their hatred, their likes and their dislikes, their tastes and their distastes, their hopes and their fears, are all most curiously alike.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle

That you sent no lading in the ship is wonderfull, and worthily distasted.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

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

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

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 David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

Whitelocke thought it best to be at some reserve in this article of secresy, not wholly to dissuade the Queen from it, lest she might be distasted.

From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton

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