dislike - use in sentences

Object

  • smell: In addition people dislike the smell of cigarette smoke on others.
  • idea: More than anything, Ms Toynbee dislikes the idea of giving young readers cause for being proud of who they were in being British.
  • fact: Others dislike the fact that campuses are often some way from the city center.

Modifying Another Word

  • actively: People liked Jim Callaghan in 1979 and actively disliked Margaret Thatcher - but they voted for her because they thought she was right.

Converse of object

  • express: The management of scarce resources is a prime issue for the pass-on practice about which a number of people expressed dislike.
  • take: I took an immediate dislike He has a hard look about him.

Adjective modifier

  • instinctive: Some people seem to take an instinctive dislike to having attributes in an XML document whose content is 20 lines long.
  • irrational: In the top ten was this little lady and I couldn't have explained my irrational dislike of her half as well as this.
  • instant: Instant dislike has a strange effect on me - I tend to get flustered in my attempts to get people to like me.
  • intense: What is wrong with encouraging intense dislike of a religion?
  • mutual: Over the years, our friendship grew through our mutual love of music and mutual dislike for each other's football teams.
  • strong: John Ellis had a very strong dislike of hanging women.

Modifies a noun

  • sex: Twelve Ways to Make Your Spouse Dislike Sex It's really not difficult to ruin what could have been great sex.

Modifying Another Word

  • intensly: I am fed up trying to be nice to someone I dislike intensly!
  • personally: Noel: Is there any style that you personally dislike?

Preposition: of

  • religion: What is wrong with encouraging intense dislike of a religion?
  • light: Symptoms The key early signs of meningitis are headache, stiff neck and dislike of bright lights.

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