dislike
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“It’s such a difficult thing for me,” she says, “because the thing that’s made me so successful is also an aspect of my personality that I really dislike … I have ambition.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
We dislike insecure bellicosity not just because it’s embarrassing, but because it is ineffective.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Capitalists may celebrate growth, but they dislike competition.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
A third cousin, a gospel-of-success evangelical pastor played by Topher Grace, is easy to dislike but a bit more difficult to despise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
If she didn’t already dislike the Tonists, she certainly did now.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing dislike
Power Prefix: dis-
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