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

He was known to be exceedingly averse to eating bear meat, and often expressed his disrelish, and even disgust, at the idea.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

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

John sprang, and despite her word and gesture of nervous disrelish, clutched, and smote his face into, her pliant crinoline.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

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