disliked

Example Sentences

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Teachers found her difficult; she disliked routine and authority.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Roosevelt disliked Woodruff and kept him at arm’s length, although he did allow Pinchot to hire Woodruff at the Agriculture Department.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

He was 73 and had disliked running young horses in a pressure race such as the Derby.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

As a venture capitalist, he disliked revenue, too.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

Newton disliked infinitesimals, the little os in his fluxion equations that sometimes acted like zeros and sometimes like nonzero numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife