distaste
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Our friends were always surprised at our distaste for nuptials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
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
Amaya Espinal, the winner of season 7 who was nicknamed "Amaya Papaya", expressed her distaste at the AI fruit re-creation of the show she starred in just last year.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
Where did this distaste for experiment come from?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
He had his antipathies, and they were strong ones, his likes and dislikes, his tastes and distastes, but these were instinctive rather than the expression of rational principle or a deliberate conclusion of his judgment.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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
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
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
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
Sleep rested not upon my weary eyes, and of a very deed could I neither eat nor drink, since food distasted me like a nausea, and wine did strangle in my throat.
From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major
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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