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

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

Sir, hear me; And let me beg your patience, if you hear Aught may disrelish you.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

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