distaste

One consistent theme: a newfound distaste for once-beloved food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Our friends were always surprised at our distaste for nuptials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Keeping the headline act of O'Neal in rude health was fundamental amid huge fluctuations in his weight and a notorious distaste for keeping fit in the off-season.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Its social contract is built on uncompromising moral standards, an emphasis on resolute social justice, and, of course, a distaste for those who fail to properly share those values.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

I don't know how to process his distaste.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The stoops of brownstone Brooklyn, on which residents routinely leave freebies for passers-by, are a reliable metric of current literary tastes — and distastes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

With no one else's tastes or distastes or allergies to consider, I discovered new rhythms and flavors.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2022

Surveys of previous generations found that people tended to share both their preferences and vehement distastes with other members of their social classes and backgrounds.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2020

Given your expressed distastes, I will point you toward monosyllabic denotations of cylindrical solidity.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014

Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence, false tears, deceits, disguises, Dangers, doubts, delays, surprises,   Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine!

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan

He paused and added, "To be quite honest, I dare say I distasted the job and shirked it."

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Nor did he become an archer of the Queen’s Body Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Whitelocke thought it best to be at some reserve in this article of secresy, not wholly to dissuade the Queen from it, lest she might be distasted.

From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton

The Mayflower had brought no profitable cargo back to England, he complained, an omission which was "wonderful and worthily distasted."

From The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth by Agnes Rothery

No trial; no condemnation; no execution; and that which I then most distasted, no definite knowledge of what should be my fate.

From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee

But now behold another grub-hunter, which, distasting mud, has discovered an unworked mine in the trunks of trees.

From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken