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Dislike

noun

An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group. Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, disfavour.

A feeling of aversion or antipathy.

verb

(past & past part. disliked; pres. part. disliking)

Have or feel a dislike or distaste for.

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"Dislike" Quotes from Famous Books

... which she breathed through her beaded veil her dislike of pioneer reformers is as old as human nature. But it was not the sigh of wisdom, but of weariness, in my lady. There is a certain insight even in gentle youth which does not recoil from the pioneer, and foresees the soft sward springing ...

— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis

... women even who love dogs and dislike children; but, nauseous fact as this is, it is not so nauseous as the fact that there are men who believe in no animal rights, or in any God of the animals, and think we may do what we please with them, indulging at their cost an insane thirst after knowledge. Injustice may discover ...

— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald

... unfortunate Marie; an unhappy circumstance which doubled the difficulties of her position, and should have tended to arouse her caution; but the haughty and impetuous nature of the Tuscan Princess could not bend to any compromise, and thus she recklessly augmented the amount of dislike which was ...

— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe

... teasing Nancy about her dolls—Joan detested dolls, she declared that it was their stupid stare that made her dislike them. She only wanted live things: dogs and cats, not even birds—she was sorry for birds. Nancy's dolls were to her "children," and she was pleading now for an especial favourite and Joan was praying—rather mockingly—that ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... I have already told you of my passion for books, and cannot, therefore, dislike bibliography. I think, with Lambinet, that the greater part of bibliographical works are sufficiently dry and soporific:[95] but I am not insensible to the utility, and even entertainment, which may result from a proper cultivation of it—although both De Bure and Peignot appear to me to have ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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