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

John sprang, and despite her word and gesture of nervous disrelish, clutched, and smote his face into, her pliant crinoline.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

He was known to be exceedingly averse to eating bear meat, and often expressed his disrelish, and even disgust, at the idea.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

He was noted for a profound appreciation of his dinner, of which he never had enough, for a disrelish for work, and a remarkable knowledge of the arts of hypocrisy.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

And the rabbits came out at sunset and hopped about them, and sniffed them with quivering noses and disrelish, and the heavy dew fell on them, but they never woke.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John