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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of distaste.

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Examples

  • Plato made it a great sign of an intemperate and corrupt commonwealth, where lawyers and physicians did abound; and the Romans distasted them so much that they were often banished out of their city, as Pliny and Celsus relate, for 600 years not admitted.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I'm a wee bit distasted that her between-climaxes wrapup is so similar to the final beach scene in "Contact".

    Spoiling Harry Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • Suitors are so distasted with delays and abuses, that plain dealing, in denying to deal in suits at first, and reporting the success barely, and in challenging no more thanks than one hath deserved, is grown not only honorable, but also gracious.

    The Essays 2007

  • Body – Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • When the Rats tailes were fully finished, Bruno declaring by outward behaviour, that he greatly distasted the matter mooved, thus answered.

    The Decameron 2004

  • So that, according unto their dreames, and as they make construction of them, that are sadly distasted, or merrily pleased, even as (by them) they either feare or hope.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Nor grew this familiarity (as yet) any way distasted, till by their daily conversing together, and enterchange of infinite pretty speeches, Jeronimo felt a strange alteration in his soule, with such enforcing and powerfull afflictions; as he was never well but in her company, nor she enjoyed any rest if Jeronimo were absent.

    The Decameron 2004

  • He seemed distasted a little at her talking as she did at first, as well as I, taking it, as I fancied he would, as something forward of her; but when he saw me give such an answer, he came immediately to himself again.

    Moll Flanders 2003

  • The bundle distasted me; I wished my work undone, and the hidden fate left sleeping in the earth.

    The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

  • The Mayflower had brought no profitable cargo back to England, he complained, an omission which was "wonderful and worthily distasted."

    The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

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