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distaste

[dis-teyst] / dɪsˈteɪst /


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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 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

Isa had discovered Mr. Beiderman’s particular distaste for instruments six years ago, when she was in first grade.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

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

He had his antipathies, and they were strong ones, his likes and dislikes, his tastes and distastes, but these were instinctive rather than the expression of rational principle or a deliberate conclusion of his judgment.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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

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 Rothery, Agnes

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

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

Sleep rested not upon my weary eyes, and of a very deed could I neither eat nor drink, since food distasted me like a nausea, and wine did strangle in my throat.

From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles

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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