distaste

“I don’t think it was any secret other council members had a high distaste for her the moment she walked in.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Keeping the headline act of O'Neal in rude health was fundamental amid huge fluctuations in his weight and a notorious distaste for keeping fit in the off-season.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Its social contract is built on uncompromising moral standards, an emphasis on resolute social justice, and, of course, a distaste for those who fail to properly share those values.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

McQuarrie adds that he has a “growing distaste for nominal” — in other words, regular non-inflation-adjusted — “bonds in a fiat-currency world. I no longer own any.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026

Then she glanced with distaste at Nettle, and at last pointed along the street to where a pig was nosing around in the gutter.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

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

Nor did he become an archer of the Queen’s Body Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

That this fruit however proved to be of the flavor so much distasted by her majesty, there is good evidence.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Sleep rested not upon my weary eyes, and of a very deed could I neither eat nor drink, since food distasted me like a nausea, and wine did strangle in my throat.

From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major

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