distaste
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One consistent theme: a newfound distaste for once-beloved food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
“I’m sorry you gave away your bracelet,” Lady Meng said, looking in distaste at the masters of the House of Wu.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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
Vague yearnings she was aware of, vague inhibitions and promptings; together with tastes and distastes that were not vague at all.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Lieutenant Coffin of Company A was a busy officer, active as a jumping-jack, half liked and half distasted by the men.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
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
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
He paused and added, "To be quite honest, I dare say I distasted the job and shirked it."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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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