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

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.

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

But, while permitting yourselves the occasional perusal of works of poetry and fiction, do not so far indulge this taste as to stimulate a disrelish for more instructive reading.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

He loved study, and even at a later period declares that “no employment or condition of life shall make me disrelish the lasting entertainment of books.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac