Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disapprobation; indignation.
- noun Distaste; aversion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Dislike; aversion.
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- verb Present participle of
mislike .
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Examples
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Fisherman beckoning and talking to him, though he knew not what he was saying; so he said to Sandal, misliking his behaviour, O
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These sympathies are pretty sure to be mutual amongst men and women, and if, for my part, some kind friend tells me that such and such a man has been abusing me, I am almost sure, on my own side, that I have a misliking to such and such a man.
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My uncle interrupted me, misliking so much silence now, with the naked woods falling over us.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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‘I will tell you by-and-by,’ I answered, misliking this satire upon us; ‘but I might begin with a quart of ale, to enable me to speak, madam.’
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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The horse jibbed at first, misliking the need to ride out into darkened streets, but Pasgen simply gripped its feeble mind and rode it through the night.
This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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But I misliking so to be treated, strode through the kitchen indignantly, for Betty behaved to me even now, as if I were only Eliza.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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‘Not so,’ I replied, misliking the job, ‘all I promised was to go, if this house were assured against any onslaught of the Doones.’
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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So, with many pretty coaxings, she had led me to give it up; which, except for her own sake, I was glad enough to do, misliking a charge of such importance.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Yet the Greeks not enduring but utterly misliking it, the Lacedaemonians, sending to Delphi, caused this to be cut out, and the names of the cities, as it was fit, to be engraven instead of it.
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With that he leaned forward, and spoke to his mare — she was just of the tint of a strawberry, a young thing, very beautiful — and she arched up her neck, as misliking the job; yet, trusting him, would attempt it.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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