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distaste

[dis-tayst] / dɪsˈteɪst /


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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

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

The doctor stopped in his tracks with a look of elegant amazement and distaste, and the ward grew still.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

No application containing aloes, or any drug the dog distastes, will be of any avail.

From The Dog by Dinks

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

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

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

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

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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