disrelish

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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

With poaching much moral evil is connected; a habit of nightly depredation; a custom of prowling in the dark for prey produces in time a disrelish for honest labor.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah

In some few instances, indeed, a positive disrelish for it was openly avowed, and we could not help feeling that those opinions were entitled to particular respect as they could have come only by inspiration.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

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.

But at the same time, notwithstanding his pride, a certain disrelish remained, for which he could not account as he was not sufficiently developed psychologically.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk