distaste

You have been clear about your distaste for the new F1 engine rules this year and at the Japanese Grand Prix you said: 'Is it worth it?'

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Our friends were always surprised at our distaste for nuptials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

At Sandisk, his distaste for Apple was so strong that he rarely met with the company, people familiar with his career said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

Mounted men all, Dothraki and Brazen Beasts and freedmen, they were united only by their distaste for this duty.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Vague yearnings she was aware of, vague inhibitions and promptings; together with tastes and distastes that were not vague at all.

From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

That this fruit however proved to be of the flavor so much distasted by her majesty, there is good evidence.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange’s study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sleep rested not upon my weary eyes, and of a very deed could I neither eat nor drink, since food distasted me like a nausea, and wine did strangle in my throat.

From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major

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

From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 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

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