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

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

Sir, hear me; And let me beg your patience, if you hear Aught may disrelish you.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

The consequence was, a disrelish for all the ordinary sources of amusement and employment, which engaged her equals in years.

From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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