disliking

Example Sentences

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When the bubble is big enough, it shifts the behavior of the market as a whole from disliking capital expenditure, and hating speculative capital spending in particular, to loving it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

Some readers confessed to never having seen the film whose soundtrack they love; others even reported disliking it.

From New York Times • May 26, 2024

Perhaps the baseball karma gods took a disliking to Kepler’s heads-up play because Seattle reeled off four runs in the top of the ninth inning as the Twins imploded.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

Despite apparently disliking one another, the pair have a son together, Neil "the Baby" Noel Edmond Smith.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024

‘And you can say what you like, about what you know no more of than you do of boating, Mr. Sandyman,’ retorted the Gaffer, disliking the miller even more than usual.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien