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disrelish

American  
[dis-rel-ish] / dɪsˈrɛl ɪʃ /

verb (used with object)

  1. to have a distaste for; dislike.


noun

  1. distaste; dislike.

disrelish British  
/ dɪsˈrɛlɪʃ /

verb

  1. (tr) to have a feeling of aversion for; dislike

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. such a feeling

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of disrelish

First recorded in 1540–50; dis- 1 + relish


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

At the reply that he who would practise the magic by which it could be shaped must renounce love, the god turns away in conclusive disrelish.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell

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

Pretty women of late years approached the captain in his fatherly capacity, much to his disrelish.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various

Our union, my dear friend, is independent of the relish or disrelish of all created things and events.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

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