disrelish

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All the same he left his nook with some disrelish--it would have been so capital a conjuncture to have met her just there, and he had taken such pains!

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  1. transitive verb To have distaste for; dislike.
  2. noun Distaste; aversion.

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  • All the same he left his nook with some disrelish--it would have been so capital a conjuncture to have met her just there, and he had taken such pains! —  Patsy
  • Add to this that a great number of persons in every country find their delight and their business in exasperating international disrelish, and with what vestige of common sense can one feel surprise that war is ceaselessly talked of, often enough declared. —  The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
  • 'Yes, Captain Con always amuses me, and I am bound to confess I have no positive disrelish of his compliments. —  Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
  • Be wary of him in the heart; especially be wary of the disrelish of brainstuff. —  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
  • She showed her disrelish for his flippant tone, by removing her hand from his arm. —  Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
 

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/dɪsˈrɛlɪʃ/
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