as in disgust
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness
usually views abstract paintings with distaste
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Recent Examples of distaste
The Republican majority has shown a broad distaste for some of the rules that come with federal funding.
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Adam Tamburin, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Nor does a distaste for hand-me-downs explain the difference; the same pattern applies regardless of where a production begins.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Excessive depictions of pain, as in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, can curdle understanding into a kind of grimy sympathy or, worse, distaste.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
Yet Kingsley frequently expressed his distaste for rigid scientific naturalism and its rejection of all intuition and openness to the unknown.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
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Adam Tamburin, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Nor does a distaste for hand-me-downs explain the difference; the same pattern applies regardless of where a production begins.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Excessive depictions of pain, as in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, can curdle understanding into a kind of grimy sympathy or, worse, distaste.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
Yet Kingsley frequently expressed his distaste for rigid scientific naturalism and its rejection of all intuition and openness to the unknown.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for distaste
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“Distaste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distaste. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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