distaste
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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
“I think it belittles memory,” she says, wrinkling her nose in distaste at the still-standing house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury,” the majority said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
It was on this trip that he had acquired most of his distaste for the reverends.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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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
Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence, false tears, deceits, disguises, Dangers, doubts, delays, surprises, Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine!
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
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
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
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
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
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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