disrelish

Example Sentences

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No melodramatic toughies, his cowpunchers are happy-go-lucky lads with a natural disrelish to being told they can't do that.

From Time Magazine Archive

This gives a solemn testimony of the generous affection we bore our friends, when we seem to disrelish everything now we can no more enjoy them, or see them partake in our enjoyments.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

His only companions were a few intimate friends, and, thus secluded, his character naturally took a sensitive, meditative cast, and his growing disrelish for severer tasks was confirmed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

In some few instances, indeed, a positive disrelish for it was openly avowed, and we could not help feeling that those opinions were entitled to particular respect as they could have come only by inspiration.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

John sprang, and despite her word and gesture of nervous disrelish, clutched, and smote his face into, her pliant crinoline.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.