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

Thus old memories mar the actual triumph;85 Thus the doing savors of disrelish; Thus achievement lacks a gracious somewhat; O'er-importuned brows becloud the mandate, Carelessness or consciousness—the gesture.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Nausicaa's occupation is not popular with her sex, and she herself has not altogether escaped from a tinge of disrelish.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

Hazlitt, in discussing him at length in the second lecture on the “Comic Writers,” confesses a disrelish for his style.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

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