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

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

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

But a little disrelish was threatened by an accidental sight of the process of cake-making, which it required the full measure of indifference to trifling unfitnesses among the sailors of the mess to get over.

From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William