distaste
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One consistent theme: a newfound distaste for once-beloved food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I don’t think it was any secret other council members had a high distaste for her the moment she walked in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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
He looked down at his own hands with distaste.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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
Vague yearnings she was aware of, vague inhibitions and promptings; together with tastes and distastes that were not vague at all.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
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
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
He paused and added, "To be quite honest, I dare say I distasted the job and shirked it."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Nor did he become an archer of the Queen’s Body Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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