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[ verb ] have or feel a dislike or distaste for
Examples "I really dislike this salesman" Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)They dislike dense vegetation . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)When you disliked or distrusted a man , you should have a reason . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)They neither liked nor disliked the Old_Man . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
Synonyms Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)It appears to be one of intense dislike , which he makes little effort to conceal even in the presence of Southern friends . Regardless_of rights and wrongs , a population and an area appropriate to a pre World_War_I , great_power have been , following conquest , ruled against their will by a neighboring people , and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)Lawrence stared a minute at the lighted ribbon of traffic , hoping that a clue to his dislike of the Vice_President would appear . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a feeling of aversion or antipathy
Examples "my dislike of him was instinctive" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)When Peter_B._Kyne ( Pride_of_Palomar , 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese , did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition ? (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)Even_so , Madden 's dislike of the suave , correct lawyer deepened . |
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