distaste

“Mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury,” the majority said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“I don’t think it was any secret other council members had a high distaste for her the moment she walked in.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Keeping the headline act of O'Neal in rude health was fundamental amid huge fluctuations in his weight and a notorious distaste for keeping fit in the off-season.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

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

Ekon didn’t look away from Father Olufemi’s searing gaze, but in his periphery, he felt the other warriors watching him, their distaste palpable in the acrid night air.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

As an illustration of my own views in this respect, I may mention an incident which may appeal, perhaps, to the sympathies of others whose tastes or distastes are like my own.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

My fortune having inured and allured me, even from my infancy, to one sole, singular, and perfect amity, hath verily in some sort distasted me from others....

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

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 Knox Magee

Lieutenant Coffin of Company A was a busy officer, active as a jumping-jack, half liked and half distasted by the men.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

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 Agnes Rothery

Whitelocke thought it best to be at some reserve in this article of secresy, not wholly to dissuade the Queen from it, lest she might be distasted.

From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton

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 Edward Hamilton Aitken