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distaste

[dis-tayst] / dɪsˈteɪst /


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To return to our main theme, Weidel mentions Trump only twice, with evident distaste, in that hour-long conversation.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Wiseman says the show has yet to specifically talk about Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty Count Dracula, but Port says the Halloween episode will discuss the coven’s distaste for vampire stereotypes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

On RateMyProfessors, students remark on Boyagoda’s heavy assignments, tough grading and distaste for cellphones, but also hail his “comedy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“To the contrary, we have repeatedly held that mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury under Article III” of the Constitution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

He coughed quietly, gingerly, and dabbed the pads slowly at his lips with a distaste that had become automatic.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The stoops of brownstone Brooklyn, on which residents routinely leave freebies for passers-by, are a reliable metric of current literary tastes — and distastes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

With no one else's tastes or distastes or allergies to consider, I discovered new rhythms and flavors.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2022

Surveys of previous generations found that people tended to share both their preferences and vehement distastes with other members of their social classes and backgrounds.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2020

Given your expressed distastes, I will point you toward monosyllabic denotations of cylindrical solidity.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014

You see, I go wholly upon my individual likings and distastes: that other considerations should have their weight with other people is natural and inevitable.

From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

The Mayflower had brought no profitable cargo back to England, he complained, an omission which was "wonderful and worthily distasted."

From The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth by Agnes Rothery

He paused and added, "To be quite honest, I dare say I distasted the job and shirked it."

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

He wanted to win, but he was willing to lose if he must; and above all he distasted the notion of a limit.

From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis

My fortune having inured and allured me, even from my infancy, to one sole, singular, and perfect amity, hath verily in some sort distasted me from others....

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Lieutenant Coffin of Company A was a busy officer, active as a jumping-jack, half liked and half distasted by the men.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

But now behold another grub-hunter, which, distasting mud, has discovered an unworked mine in the trunks of trees.

From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken


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