distaste

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

“I don’t think it was any secret other council members had a high distaste for her the moment she walked in.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

“The sooner we snap out of our distaste for genetic modification, the better.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

But these distastes are as nothing to the new Terror of the Fly.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nor did he become an archer of the Queen’s Body Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 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

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

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

And you, my Lords, are so far from being any Causers of it, that I take as much comfort in your dutiful Demeanour, as I am justly distasted with their Proceedings.

From Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

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