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

An infant, he says, naturally has a disrelish for animal food.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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

John sprang, and despite her word and gesture of nervous disrelish, clutched, and smote his face into, her pliant crinoline.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

On the present occasion he had no appetite for solid food, but sat apart morosely, tasting from time to time with manifest disrelish the light drinks provided.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William