as in dislike
a strong feeling of not liking or approving
she showed a clear disrelish for the task of taking on her coworker's responsibilities
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as in to dislike
to feel dislike for
I disrelish the thought of sitting through endless meetings on the matter
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrelish
Noun
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Saxon is a nepo-baby-finance-frat-boy who has instantly courted dislike of his character.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025 -
President Donald Trump’s announcement overnight that the United States would immediately halt military aid to Ukraine was welcomed by the Kremlin on Tuesday, and his decision appears to vindicate Putin’s visceral dislike of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.—
Keir Simmons,
NBC News,
4 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Alleviating financial anxiety Love or hate what’s happening, there has been financial fallout from all the uncertainty and chaos generated.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
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Episode One introduces Jamie as a slight kid who hates needles and just wants to go home.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Venerable baby boomer Kevin Bacon plays the titular bounty hunter Hub Halloran, a proud Georgia man with little tolerance for tomfoolery and a hatred of the Red Sox.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Even if those two men didn’t make it out of Europe alive, the unspeakable acts carried out in the name of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich would still live on in infamy, reminding humanity what blind hatred and xenophobia could lead to if a society wasn’t careful.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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John remembered that one with the same distaste as Brother Rice’s 55-52 double overtime loss to DePaul Prep.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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The New York Mets' distaste for the Philadelphia Phillies has made for one of the better rivalries in baseball over the years, particularly now that the two teams are regularly in playoff position in the National League East.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Disrelish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disrelish. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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