distaste
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Our friends were always surprised at our distaste for nuptials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
Amaya Espinal, the winner of season 7 who was nicknamed "Amaya Papaya", expressed her distaste at the AI fruit re-creation of the show she starred in just last year.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
After getting past my distaste for the genre, I understood why.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
This time he forgot to make the face to show his distaste with this romance business.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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
Their tastes and distastes were so synonymous; they hated hypocrisy, vulgarity, slovenliness, imitations.
From The Moccasin Maker by Charles Mair
My fortune having inured and allured me, even from my infancy, to one sole, singular, and perfect amity, hath verily in some sort distasted me from others....
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
He wanted to win, but he was willing to lose if he must; and above all he distasted the notion of a limit.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
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
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 Jacob Abbott
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
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
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