Definition of 'distaste'

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distaste

(dɪsteɪst )

uncountable noun

If you feel distaste for someone or something, you dislike them and consider them to be unpleasant, disgusting, or immoral.

Roger looked at her with distaste.

He professed a distaste for everything related to money.

Synonyms: dislike, horror, disgust, loathing More Synonyms of distaste

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distaste in British

(dɪsˈteɪst )

noun

1. (often foll by for)

an absence of pleasure (in); dislike (of); aversion (to)

to look at someone with distaste

verb

2. (transitive) an archaic word for dislike

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distaste in American

(dɪsˈteɪst ; distāstˈ; ˈdɪsˌteɪst ; disˈtāstˌ)

noun

dislike or aversion (for)

verb transitiveWord forms: disˈtasted or disˈtasting Archaic

to have a distaste for; dislike

to displease, offend

verb intransitive

4. Obsolete

to be distasteful

Example sentences containing 'distaste'

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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? Edith Wharton The House of Mirth (1905)He was finding "a steadily growing distaste for political life '. Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)I began to feel an extreme distaste for him. Marsden, Philip 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? Bachmann, Susan (editor) & Barth, Melinda Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook (1995)Decent charities, aware of public distaste for such methods, have abandoned them. Times, Sunday Times (2006)