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
Richling swung his head from side to side as an expression of disrelish.
From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington
His only companions were a few intimate friends, and, thus secluded, his character naturally took a sensitive, meditative cast, and his growing disrelish for severer tasks was confirmed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
He was noted for a profound appreciation of his dinner, of which he never had enough, for a disrelish for work, and a remarkable knowledge of the arts of hypocrisy.
From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell
Nausicaa's occupation is not popular with her sex, and she herself has not altogether escaped from a tinge of disrelish.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
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