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distaste

[dis-teyst] / dɪsˈteɪst /


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At Sandisk, his distaste for Apple was so strong that he rarely met with the company, people familiar with his career said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid who created the band in response to their distaste of the music at the time.

From BBC Jul. 15, 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

The reason: Many viewers have interpreted Kempczinski’s tiny bite of the Big Arch, and his awkward praise of the 1,057-calorie burger, as apparent distaste.

From MarketWatch Mar. 6, 2026

It was on this trip that he had acquired most of his distaste for the reverends.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

In the midst of these various distastes and discomforts, some interest was raised in the mind of Juliet, for one of her young fellow-work-women.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Bradford, William

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Morton, Charles

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 Magee, Knox

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 Aitken, Edward Hamilton




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