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 very harshness of the event which had so rudely broken in upon her enjoyment seemed to have borrowed its disrelish from the rebuke that she had known as waiting all along to shame her.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
Nancy first learnt to disrelish the honest, artless effusions of her first lover's heart.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
He was known to be exceedingly averse to eating bear meat, and often expressed his disrelish, and even disgust, at the idea.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.
He took an emphatic liking to the not too brainy colonel, and a new disrelish to his almost too sparkling wife.
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
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