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 only reason he did not rise in the church, we are told, "was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him, because he was not qualified to be a complete spaniel."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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 Brownell, Gertrude Hall
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 More, Hannah
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
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