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distaste

[dis-teyst] / dɪsˈteɪst /


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You have been clear about your distaste for the new F1 engine rules this year and at the Japanese Grand Prix you said: 'Is it worth it?'

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

One consistent theme: a newfound distaste for once-beloved food.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Crowe’s temperament, blunt demeanor and distaste for certain aspects of “celebrity” have long been fodder for news coverage.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 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

As Maester Medrick went to one knee to whisper in Bolton’s ear, Lady Dustin’s mouth twisted in distaste.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Gerda opened her lips to impart something, but remembered her father's distastes and refrained.

From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay

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

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

The Mayflower had brought no profitable cargo back to England, he complained, an omission which was "wonderful and worthily distasted."

From The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth by Agnes Rothery

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

That this fruit however proved to be of the flavor so much distasted by her majesty, there is good evidence.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

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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