disrelish

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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

The stomach of his inner man evinced a wonderful disrelish, and exhibited a reversed peristaltic motion towards everything in the shape of pawning, since the affair of the flowers.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

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

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

The consequence was, a disrelish for all the ordinary sources of amusement and employment, which engaged her equals in years.

From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe