mislike
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Rats mislike loud noises, as many a laboratory worker knows.
From Time Magazine Archive
With young men and maidens, too, the parson hath his problems: for if from them he hold aloof, they mislike him much.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am going to have to trust that he will keep his part of the bargain, but I mislike this kind of calculation.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
I mislike to carry no word of him; but I know you shall be rejoiced at the news of our victory.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"We had it from Craster. I mislike the man, but I do not think he lied to us in this."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
But it was much misliked by Nehru and other Congress leaders: they feared Moslem secession, cried that Indian unity should not be destroyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
His sister misliked being reminded that he was the King's Hand, and he did not wish to inflame the relations between them any further.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Ser Jacelyn Bywater was likely here by now, and Ironhand misliked waiting.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Yet for all that, Catelyn misliked the man.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Davos misliked the sound of that, but he had not come all this way to hold his tongue.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
But having received the lower tire of the Revenge, shifted her selfe with all diligence, utterly misliking her first entertainement.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever else I do but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
After this she sheered off with all diligence from her too close position, "utterly misliking her first entertainment".
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
Which we did, all but the poet, who, being either big with his ode, or misliking the wildness of the night, sat idle.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed
Sea-birds wheeled and clamoured, misliking this invasion of their precincts.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
