dislike
verb (used with object)
to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion.
was disliking
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past progressiveof dislike.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But Digory was disliking his Uncle more every minute, so he said nothing.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
Polly, who was disliking the Queen and feeling rather sulky, would not have let her hand be taken if she could have helped it.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
Above the depths where these impressions were received was his consciousness that he must be careful if Karen were not to guess how much he was disliking her guardian.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Margaret was disliking him, his manner was so offensively familiar and patronizing—and her plans concerning him made her contemptuous of herself, and therefore resentful against him.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips
Every way embarrassed as I was, disliking my companions, afraid of my own interest in him, a veil was drawn over my mind, through which he could neither judge of my good nor bad qualities.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
