disrelish
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
noun
Etymology
Origin of disrelish
Example Sentences
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No melodramatic toughies, his cowpunchers are happy-go-lucky lads with a natural disrelish to being told they can't do that.
From Time Magazine Archive
The consequence was, a disrelish for all the ordinary sources of amusement and employment, which engaged her equals in years.
From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
And the rabbits came out at sunset and hopped about them, and sniffed them with quivering noses and disrelish, and the heavy dew fell on them, but they never woke.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
John sprang, and despite her word and gesture of nervous disrelish, clutched, and smote his face into, her pliant crinoline.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
On the present occasion he had no appetite for solid food, but sat apart morosely, tasting from time to time with manifest disrelish the light drinks provided.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
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