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

At the reply that he who would practise the magic by which it could be shaped must renounce love, the god turns away in conclusive disrelish.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Our proceedings did not appear to please him, for he wore a most diabolical scowl, which, as he was anything but handsome, gave me a serious disrelish for his company.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

He loved study, and even at a later period declares that “no employment or condition of life shall make me disrelish the lasting entertainment of books.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

But, while permitting yourselves the occasional perusal of works of poetry and fiction, do not so far indulge this taste as to stimulate a disrelish for more instructive reading.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry