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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

... look at her, his disapproval and dislike melted. "I was brutally harsh to her," he ...

— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips

... time to time when he caught the inquisitive glance of some stranger. He had that dislike of being stared at which comes on geniuses late in life, and never leaves the commonplace. Sibyl, however, was quite unconscious of the effect she was producing. Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. She was thinking of Prince ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... There are thousands such, living in serene girlhood, wifehood, or widowhood, to be found in the villages and country towns of dear old England. With but very few exceptions, they are kindly-natured, unimaginative, imbued with a shrinking dislike of any exaggerated display of emotion; in some ways amazingly broad-minded, in others curiously limited in their outlook on life. Such women, as a rule, present few points of interest to students of human nature, for they are almost invariably true to type, their virtues and ...

— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... school I had been frequently taken at advantage by a bigger boy. He had twice my strength—he took a strong dislike for me—perhaps, because I was unwilling to pay him that deference, which, as school-bully, he extorted from all others;—and he drubbed me accordingly, whenever an opportunity occurred. My resistance was vain, and only stimulated him to increased brutality. One ...

— Confession • W. Gilmore Simms

... cowed, not so much at these mysterious words as at a hard, lowering look in the man's face, like especial dislike. ...

— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend

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