distaste

Its social contract is built on uncompromising moral standards, an emphasis on resolute social justice, and, of course, a distaste for those who fail to properly share those values.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

Amaya Espinal, the winner of season 7 who was nicknamed "Amaya Papaya", expressed her distaste at the AI fruit re-creation of the show she starred in just last year.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

McQuarrie adds that he has a “growing distaste for nominal” — in other words, regular non-inflation-adjusted — “bonds in a fiat-currency world. I no longer own any.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026

After getting past his own distaste for romance novels, former WSJ editor C.J.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Hugh had been watching too, his face twisted with distaste.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The stoops of brownstone Brooklyn, on which residents routinely leave freebies for passers-by, are a reliable metric of current literary tastes — and distastes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

With no one else's tastes or distastes or allergies to consider, I discovered new rhythms and flavors.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2022

Surveys of previous generations found that people tended to share both their preferences and vehement distastes with other members of their social classes and backgrounds.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2020

Given your expressed distastes, I will point you toward monosyllabic denotations of cylindrical solidity.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014

Could all these people read her mind and follow the track of her distastes and desires, even the dragomans and the donkey-boys?

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

No trial; no condemnation; no execution; and that which I then most distasted, no definite knowledge of what should be my fate.

From With Ring of Shield by Magee, Knox

The Mayflower had brought no profitable cargo back to England, he complained, an omission which was "wonderful and worthily distasted."

From The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth by Rothery, Agnes

There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange’s study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

That this fruit however proved to be of the flavor so much distasted by her majesty, there is good evidence.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

He wanted to win, but he was willing to lose if he must; and above all he distasted the notion of a limit.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

But now behold another grub-hunter, which, distasting mud, has discovered an unworked mine in the trunks of trees.

From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Aitken, Edward Hamilton