distaste Definition
dis·taste (dis tāst′, dis′tāst′)
noun
dislike or aversion (for)
transitive verb -·tast′ed, -·tast′·ing
- to have a distaste for; dislike
- to displease, offend
intransitive verb
Obsolete to be distasteful
distaste Synonyms
distaste Usage Examples
Converse of object
- express: The majority have wished they had learned mediator skills earlier, and many expressed a distaste for the overly adversarial system they work in.
- show: Opinion polls over many years have shown a persistent public distaste for giving up the pound in favor of the euro.
- develop: Personally, from an early age I developed a distaste for many multiple shop groups.
- have: I have a little distaste for them based on how much TV I did.
- feel: It is worrying and one feels considerable distaste for your behavior.
- reflect: Our protest reflects mainstream distaste at a long military occupation.
Preposition: for
- war: Despite his strong distaste for war, Lincoln was not afraid to wage total war to achieve total victory.
- idea: After seeing these, Ned Land exhibited an obvious distaste for the idea of putting one on.
- politics: Hello Eddie I find your distaste for politics and political activism a bit strange.
- anything: The press also took the moral high ground and showed distaste for anything as vulgar as a League.
- democracy: China has a marked distaste for democracy, human rights, freedom of movement and international free trade treaties.
- people: Shauny wrote about her distaste for people who lea.. .
Adjective modifier
- obvious: Which is interesting, given Radiohead's obvious distaste for the US president.
- deep: Natural Hierarchies of Sustainability Level 6 has a deep distaste for hierarchies [ which is what the levels are ] .
- strong: Despite his strong distaste for war, Lincoln was not afraid to wage total war to achieve total victory.
- general: Boris Ford, Baltimore, 1961 ), writes that the novel leaves the impression of a " general unselective distaste.
- public: Opinion polls over many years have shown a persistent public distaste for giving up the pound in favor of the euro.
- profound: What does Scout think caused her father's ' profound distaste ' for the practice of criminal law?
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