1
[ 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

like hate resent disapprove

2
[ noun ] an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

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 .

3
[ 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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