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

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

Our union, my dear friend, is independent of the relish or disrelish of all created things and events.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

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

But at the same time, notwithstanding his pride, a certain disrelish remained, for which he could not account as he was not sufficiently developed psychologically.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk