- present participle of dislike.
disliking
Example Sentences
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In 1995, Keith starred in Next Of Kin as Maggie Prentice, a grandmother who made no secret of disliking her orphaned grandchildren when taking them in after the death of her estranged son.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
When the bubble is big enough, it shifts the behavior of the market as a whole from disliking capital expenditure, and hating speculative capital spending in particular, to loving it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
Some readers confessed to never having seen the film whose soundtrack they love; others even reported disliking it.
From New York Times • May 26, 2024
Mulvaney then told Barrymore, “I look at someone like you and can’t imagine anybody disliking you.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023
In disliking them, I was forced to recognize my own pretension, and that made me hate them even more.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
