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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

You have been clear about your distaste for the new F1 engine rules this year and at the Japanese Grand Prix you said: 'Is it worth it?'

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury,” the majority said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

At Sandisk, his distaste for Apple was so strong that he rarely met with the company, people familiar with his career said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

He received these marks of gratitude with distaste, cutting short my thanks to order me out of the room.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

As an illustration of my own views in this respect, I may mention an incident which may appeal, perhaps, to the sympathies of others whose tastes or distastes are like my own.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange’s study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

That you sent no lading in the ship is wonderfull, and worthily distasted.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

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

And you, my Lords, are so far from being any Causers of it, that I take as much comfort in your dutiful Demeanour, as I am justly distasted with their Proceedings.

From Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

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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