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disrelish

[dis-rel-ish] / dɪsˈrɛl ɪʃ /


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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 only reason he did not rise in the church, we are told, "was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him, because he was not qualified to be a complete spaniel."

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

The stomach of his inner man evinced a wonderful disrelish, and exhibited a reversed peristaltic motion towards everything in the shape of pawning, since the affair of the flowers.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

His only companions were a few intimate friends, and, thus secluded, his character naturally took a sensitive, meditative cast, and his growing disrelish for severer tasks was confirmed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

The wine is not tasty, but only a small disrelish has to be overcome, and it is healthier.

From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf




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