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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

I desire no little coffee-house politician to meddle with it; but to give him even a disrelish for my company.

From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx

With poaching much moral evil is connected; a habit of nightly depredation; a custom of prowling in the dark for prey produces in time a disrelish for honest labor.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More

In a few minutes the two men had changed their costumes and stood looking at each other with a very evident disrelish of their respective situations.

From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye

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

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