distaste

The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid who created the band in response to their distaste of the music at the time.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Crowe’s temperament, blunt demeanor and distaste for certain aspects of “celebrity” have long been fodder for news coverage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

She had, on her sharply defined small face, an expression of sullen distaste.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

But in the bosom of this unrepining solitude it is likely enough that I have nursed opinions into passions, and distastes into hatred.

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

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

No trial; no condemnation; no execution; and that which I then most distasted, no definite knowledge of what should be my fate.

From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee

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

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

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