distaste

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Adding to his distaste is the revelation that a crew of gang bangers is stalking the family's teenage son and daughter, who turn out to be a pair of good kids caught up with the wrong crowd.

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  1. noun Dislike or aversion.
  2. transitive verb Archaic To feel repugnance for; dislike.
  3. transitive verb Archaic To offend; displease.

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  • Farino showed an expression of distaste, as if Kurtz had farted in his expensive limousine. —  Dan Simmons - Hardcase
  • Adding to his distaste is the revelation that a crew of gang bangers is stalking the family's teenage son and daughter, who turn out to be a pair of good kids caught up with the wrong crowd. —  Yes Weekly
  • For many, it symbolized Latin American distaste with Mr. Bush. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • I know an agent who to his severe distaste has been assigned to the protection detail for the anointed one. —  Rachel Lucas
  • Should we ever get rid of that evil shadow, we wondered, which had darkened so cruelly two weary months of our lives Now and then we looked out of the windows with distaste--agreed that the outskirts of Frankfort were hideous with their obtrusive and insistent collection of factory chimneys; and shuddered at the distant and beautiful background of mountain and forest, to us so teeming with painful memories. —  A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes
 

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/dɪsˈteɪst/
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