mislike
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With young men and maidens, too, the parson hath his problems: for if from them he hold aloof, they mislike him much.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rats mislike loud noises, as many a laboratory worker knows.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I mislike the tone of your voice, my lo—Imp. I am the Lord of Harrenhal and a member of the king's council, who are you to chastise me like this?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
“I mislike everything about this. If he was going to go to Eldred, he would have done it already.”
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
He had a ’ard, cold look and red eyes, and I took a sort of mislike to him, for it seemed as if it was ’im as they was hirritated at.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
But it was much misliked by Nehru and other Congress leaders: they feared Moslem secession, cried that Indian unity should not be destroyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
His sister misliked being reminded that he was the King's Hand, and he did not wish to inflame the relations between them any further.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
In truth, Ned did not trust the mute knight, though perhaps that was only because he misliked executioners.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Davos misliked the sound of that, but he had not come all this way to hold his tongue.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Ser Jacelyn Bywater was likely here by now, and Ironhand misliked waiting.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
But having received the lower tire of the Revenge, shifted her selfe with all diligence, utterly misliking her first entertainement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sea-birds wheeled and clamoured, misliking this invasion of their precincts.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
The Lady that was young, wise and discrete, marking the maner of hir husband, feared that he had some misliking of hir.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
And why, misliking me, as I made sure he did, should he be so hot to make the shadow marriage a thing of substance?
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
But he had sown a seed of misliking, and it had opportunity to ripen.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
