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distaste

[ dis-teyst ]

noun

  1. dislike; disinclination.

    Synonyms: disgust, repugnance, aversion

  2. dislike for food or drink.


verb (used with object)

, dis·tast·ed, dis·tast·ing.
  1. Archaic. to dislike.

distaste

/ dɪsˈteɪst /

noun

  1. often foll by for an absence of pleasure (in); dislike (of); aversion (to)

    to look at someone with distaste



verb

  1. tr an archaic word for dislike

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Word History and Origins

Origin of distaste1

First recorded in 1580–90; dis- 1 + taste

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Synonym Study

See dislike.

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Example Sentences

We also have a language filled with distaste for the civilian “others.”

Their borderline baseline distaste for a person they did not know had become a sport, and the off season was finally over.

Perhaps ascribing a distaste for the Oscar winner and soon-to-be Interstellar star is an overstatement.

His distaste derives from a basic confusion in the position of the puritanical prescriptivist.

Colbert and Lampkin are not alone in their distaste for the online behemoth.

"He wasn't anything to show," said Betty, experiencing again the feeling of distaste she had had for the man.

He looked at Mandleco with immense disdain, gave a pert tilt of his head and surveyed the room with a grimace of distaste.

A sudden distaste for the monotonous toil with the shovel came upon him, and he felt the call of the wilderness.

Since that time Frederick has written little or nothing, his distaste for work becoming more and more marked from that time on.

They call him Beau Lyndwood, thought the young man with a slight sense of distaste.

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