distaste
Speech parts
1. distaste - Noun
2. distaste - Verb
Meaning
Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
Discomfort; uneasiness.
Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
To offend; to disgust; to displease.
To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.
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Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.