Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dislike .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective regarded with aversion
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Examples
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Imagine this lead sentence in a news story on Nov. 7, 2012: "Barack Obama enters his second term disliked by the majority of voters, distrusted by his Democratic colleagues in Congress and facing a budget catastrophe with few painless solutions."
A California Strategy for Obama's Re-Election Doug Usher 2011
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All it does is show why Darwin disliked Christianity.
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The sentence shows that Darwin disliked the form of Christianity that condems all non-believers to eternal damnation.
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The sentence shows that Darwin disliked the form of Christianity that condems all non-believers to eternal damnation.
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All it does is show why Darwin disliked Christianity.
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The only person at the museum who was even more widely disliked is Jaber al-Tikriti.
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The only person at the museum who was even more widely disliked is Jaber al-Tikriti.
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It was stated that the residents were known as Mesticos (in the past), a term disliked by the elders and unheard of by young residents.
nst online 2009
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He regarded Webster's dictionary as a purveyor of corrupting neologisms like "feedback," a word he disliked.
The Man Who Taught Us to See Eric Gibson 2011
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You'd think any politician and spouse would have picked up on the contrast between Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush and which of the two was a huge political asset and which is "disliked" by a huge percentage of the public.
Rudy: I'd Happily Let Wife Judith Nathan Hang Out At Cabinet Meetings 2009
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