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He was defending his boss's publicly expressed distaste for broccoli. Times, Sunday Times (2008)Setting aside questions of personal distaste, this reaction was both extreme and wrong. Times, Sunday Times (2013)Was it a growing distaste for her task, or actual physical disability? The House of Mirth (1905)He was finding "a steadily growing distaste for political life '. THE GUARDSMEN (2004)I began to feel an extreme distaste for him. The Crossing-Place (1993)Many of us choose to let our distaste for discussing money win out; we keep our feelings inside. Christianity Today (2000)I feel the same distaste this week as we see two striking examples of this kind of dishonesty. Times, Sunday Times (2013)Couldn't they at least wait until we were safely home before expressing their distaste for what we were doing? Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook (1995)Decent charities, aware of public distaste for such methods, have abandoned them. Times, Sunday Times (2006)
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British English: distaste NOUN
If you feel distaste for someone or something, you dislike them and consider them to be unpleasant, disgusting, or immoral.
He looked at her with distaste.
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