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

He loved study, and even at a later period declares that “no employment or condition of life shall make me disrelish the lasting entertainment of books.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

With poaching much moral evil is connected; a habit of nightly depredation; a custom of prowling in the dark for prey produces in time a disrelish for honest labor.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah

I desire no little coffee-house politician to meddle with it; but to give him even a disrelish for my company.

From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Marx, Karl

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.