distaste
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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
“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
One consistent theme: a newfound distaste for once-beloved food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Our friends were always surprised at our distaste for nuptials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
She looked at me and pursed her lips with distaste.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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
No application containing aloes, or any drug the dog distastes, will be of any avail.
From The Dog by Dinks
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
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
Nor did he become an archer of the Queen's Body-Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.
From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 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
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
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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