disrelish

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No melodramatic toughies, his cowpunchers are happy-go-lucky lads with a natural disrelish to being told they can't do that.

From Time Magazine Archive

The very harshness of the event which had so rudely broken in upon her enjoyment seemed to have borrowed its disrelish from the rebuke that she had known as waiting all along to shame her.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The height of her esteem for Urquhart was the measure of her growing disrelish for James.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Pretty women of late years approached the captain in his fatherly capacity, much to his disrelish.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various

Thus old memories mar the actual triumph;85 Thus the doing savors of disrelish; Thus achievement lacks a gracious somewhat; O'er-importuned brows becloud the mandate, Carelessness or consciousness—the gesture.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra