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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

Richling swung his head from side to side as an expression of disrelish.

From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

“He’s in Paris now,” Yossl answered with a gesture of disrelish and speaking aloud, so that the entire crowd might hear him.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan

Hazlitt, in discussing him at length in the second lecture on the “Comic Writers,” confesses a disrelish for his style.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

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