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
You have been clear about your distaste for the new F1 engine rules this year and at the Japanese Grand Prix you said: 'Is it worth it?'
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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
Gutierrez has been critical of AI in the past, expressing distaste for the tool through a series of cheeky memes shared in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Then Tariq turned to her with a half- grinning, half-grimacing look of distaste.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
Their tastes and distastes were so synonymous; they hated hypocrisy, vulgarity, slovenliness, imitations.
From The Moccasin Maker by Charles Mair
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 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
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
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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