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

He was known to be exceedingly averse to eating bear meat, and often expressed his disrelish, and even disgust, at the idea.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

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

At the reply that he who would practise the magic by which it could be shaped must renounce love, the god turns away in conclusive disrelish.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

By this time, disrelish for vulgarity was getting the better of curiosity; and my dinner of fried pork being done, I was willing to drop the discourse.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore