dislike
Example Sentences
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"You can like or dislike the politics of the country. But it doesn't mean you need to judge the individual people that come out of it on that basis."
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
“It’s such a difficult thing for me,” she says, “because the thing that’s made me so successful is also an aspect of my personality that I really dislike … I have ambition.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
We dislike insecure bellicosity not just because it’s embarrassing, but because it is ineffective.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
We don’t want to push our children into golf; we are aware that children don’t like something just because their parents do—in fact, they may dislike something precisely because we love it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
“Oh, how I dislike arriving in strange places all alone! It is enough to make one forget who one is. I keep glancing in my pocket mirror for reassurance.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing dislike
Power Prefix: dis-
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