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

The only reason he did not rise in the church, we are told, "was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him, because he was not qualified to be a complete spaniel."

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

He took an emphatic liking to the not too brainy colonel, and a new disrelish to his almost too sparkling wife.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

Sir, hear me; And let me beg your patience, if you hear Aught may disrelish you.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

The very harshness of the event which had so rudely broken in upon her enjoyment seemed to have borrowed its disrelish from the rebuke that she had known as waiting all along to shame her.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar