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

Nancy first learnt to disrelish the honest, artless effusions of her first lover's heart.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

He was noted for a profound appreciation of his dinner, of which he never had enough, for a disrelish for work, and a remarkable knowledge of the arts of hypocrisy.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

Hazlitt, in discussing him at length in the second lecture on the “Comic Writers,” confesses a disrelish for his style.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

Nausicaa's occupation is not popular with her sex, and she herself has not altogether escaped from a tinge of disrelish.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques