distaste

The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid who created the band in response to their distaste of the music at the time.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Gutierrez has been critical of AI in the past, expressing distaste for the tool through a series of cheeky memes shared in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

“The sooner we snap out of our distaste for genetic modification, the better.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

The bigger man raised his eyes to gaze at the intruders in distaste and said something in die tongue of Old Volantis, too fast for Tyrion to hope to follow.

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

In the midst of these various distastes and discomforts, some interest was raised in the mind of Juliet, for one of her young fellow-work-women.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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

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

And you, my Lords, are so far from being any Causers of it, that I take as much comfort in your dutiful Demeanour, as I am justly distasted with their Proceedings.

From Charles I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

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 Rothery, Agnes

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Magee, Knox

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 Aitken, Edward Hamilton