distaste
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Our friends were always surprised at our distaste for nuptials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The sooner we snap out of our distaste for genetic modification, the better.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
“I’m sorry you gave away your bracelet,” Lady Meng said, looking in distaste at the masters of the House of Wu.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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
She talked always about herself as a very charming child might talk, and her comments on her tastes and distastes were unaffected and spontaneous.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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
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
Whitelocke thought it best to be at some reserve in this article of secresy, not wholly to dissuade the Queen from it, lest she might be distasted.
From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton
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
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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