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Dislike   /dɪslˈaɪk/   Listen
Dislike

noun
1.
An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group.  Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, disfavour.
2.
A feeling of aversion or antipathy.
verb
(past & past part. disliked; pres. part. disliking)
1.
Have or feel a dislike or distaste for.






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"Dislike" Quotes from Famous Books



... than his by midnight lamps and studies, has presumed to talk too favourably of this constitution, and even to say something sounding like approbation of that body which has the honour to reckon his Grace at the head of it. Those, who dislike this partiality, or, if his Grace pleases, this flattery of mine, have a comfort at hand. I may be refuted and brought to shame by the most convincing of all refutations—a practical refutation. Every individual peer for himself ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... Whether he did not like to have to look up too much, or was actually unable to do so, it is certain that Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and Fielding, those four Atlantes of English verse and prose, all affected him with lukewarm admiration, or with positive dislike, for which it is vain to attempt to assign any uniform secondary cause, political or other. It may be permitted to hint another reason. All Johnson's most sharp-sighted critics have noticed, though most have discreetly refrained from insisting on, his "thorn-in-the-flesh," ...
— Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 • Henry Fielding

... a person, denotes that you will entertain strange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... a pretty little house, with three beds in it, and we are eighteen people, so most of us sleep on the floor. It wouldn't be a bad little place (except for the drains) if only there wasn't this horrid influence about it all. I always particularly dislike toddling after people like a little lost dog, but here I find that unless I am with somebody the ghosts get the ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... with him, he knew he was a man of fortune and fashion, and well esteemed in the world. They mutually compassionated his unhappy situation in domestic life, and Cecilia innocently expressed her concern at the dislike Lady Margaret seemed to have taken to her; a dislike which Mr Harrel naturally enough imputed to her youth and beauty, yet without suspecting any cause more cogent than a general jealousy of attractions of which she had herself so long ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney


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