disrelish

Example Sentences

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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

I desire no little coffee-house politician to meddle with it; but to give him even a disrelish for my company.

From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Marx, Karl

By this time, disrelish for vulgarity was getting the better of curiosity; and my dinner of fried pork being done, I was willing to drop the discourse.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore