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• Don't get all shrinky on me. My distaste for cigars has nothing to do with childhood trauma.From the entry shrinky
• I regard such a way of life with distaste.From the entry regard
• My distaste was full-blown even before the disaster to the Quito Skyhook.1982, Robert A[nson] Heinlein, Friday, page 1. From the entry beanstalk
• They successfully transcended all kinds of snobbery and racial distaste in England, France, Germany and Austria.1966, Randolph S[pencer] Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, volumes I (Youth, 1874–1900), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company…. From the entry Rothschildren
• "Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 60. From the entry concrete
• A growing distaste for the forced acquaintanceships of travel and a craving for home brought me back.1905, William John Locke, The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, Part 2, Chapter 21. From the entry acquaintanceship
• To say that Cavendish’s distaste for hype and self-promotion extended to his personal life would be an understatement.2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York…. From the entry taciturn
• Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.2015 July 8, Jon Caramanica, “Review: On ‘Communion,’ Years & Years Turns the Familiar Into Something of Its Own”, in New York Times. From the entry bandwagoner
• The highly literate distaste for people who too passionately identify with fictional incarnations has a distinctly anticelebrity feel to it.2010, Blakey Vermeule, Why do we care about literary characters?, page x. From the entry anticelebrity
• The cultural conflict was highlighted by the fact that he had gone through the Xhosa amakwetha initiation rites with considerable distaste.2010, Dreyer Kruger, Dreams: And How to Understand Them, page 11. From the entry amakweta
• Despite our cultural distaste for entomophagy, in recent years the idea that we should eat bugs has been gaining currency.2008, Tim Dowling, The Guardian, G2, 17 Jan 2008, p. 3. From the entry entomophagy
• Among the many veiled or black-betoppered faces registering distaste in his direction, Watson was surprised to see a good many Chinamen.1984, William Rushton, “The Plot Thickens at Number Ten”, in W.G. Grace’s Last Case or The War of the Worlds - Part Two, Methuen…. From the entry betoppered
• It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country.1933, “The Korean War and the Closing Years a.d. 645–50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty…. From the entry sanguinary
• She glanced aside to the rim of the looking-glass where his photograph was wedged, shuddered, and made a moue of distaste.1913 October, Jack London, chapter VI, in The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry moue
• Proper German gentlemen harbored a particular distaste for boxing and its two-fisted muscularity, considering it lower class and bestial, a one way ticket to Palookaville.2007, Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History, page 128. From the entry one-way ticket to Palookaville
• Just somebody with a low lottery number, not enough stroke to get in the National Guard, and a distaste for tropical climates.1993, Dana Stabenow, chapter 5, in A Fatal Thaw (A Kate Shugak Mystery), Hampton Falls, N.H.: Beeler Large Print, Thomas T. Beeler…. From the entry stroke
• If the Universities and Left Review is one symptom of the distaste for conventional politics, the success of the United Nations Student Association is another.1959 January–March, W. T. Rodgers, “Politics in the Universities”, in William A[lexander] Robson, T[homas] E[dward] M[aurice] McKitterick…. From the entry angryish
• We shook hands—though I doubt if a mere fleshly contact can express much while the self behind it is dumb with instinctive distaste.1926, Walter de la Mare, “Missing”, in Best Stories of Walter de la Mare, London: Faber and Faber, published 1942, page 175. From the entry fleshly
• Every time I rugburned my knees, every time some morbidly obese man fondled me as if I were his mindless property, my distaste for the job deepened.2010, John Lindo, Collegiate Maneuvers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry rugburn
• He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously.2005, Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel, page 323. From the entry cancerously
• You want one or two?" I hesitated, and she must have caught a look of distaste on my face, for she added amiably, "Or you like scrambled better?"2004 Autumn, Julie Keith, “Pneumonia”, in The Hudson Review, volume 57, Iss. 3, page 440. From the entry fried egg
• “Welcome, sire!” Vespasian saluted, and after the briefest hesitation Plinius followed his legate’s example, swallowing his distaste for such deference to a mere native, albeit a king of his people.2002, Simon Scarrow, chapter 6, in When the Eagle Hunts (Eagles of the Empire; 3), London: Headline, →ISBN, pages 43–44. From the entry Plinius

Meaning of distaste

1. noun A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
2. noun Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
3. noun Discomfort; uneasiness.

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Questions about distaste in a sentence

How do you use distaste in a sentence?

Distaste is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Don't get all shrinky on me. My distaste for cigars has nothing to do with childhood trauma.”

What is a short sentence with distaste?

“I regard such a way of life with distaste.”

What does distaste mean?

Distaste means a feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.