Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dislikes or disapproves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dislikes or disrelishes.
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- noun One who
dislikes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As someone who has hectored Hillary a lot on this site (seen by many of you as a Hillary disliker but not a "hater" I hope), my hat is truly off to her today.
Hillary Implores Her Supporters To Work "As Hard For Barack Obama As You Have For Me" 2009
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So relieved to hear that I am not the only disliker of Halloween in the world.
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As someone who has hectored Hillary a lot on this site (seen by many of you as a Hillary disliker but not a "hater" I hope), my hat is truly off to her today.
Hillary To Supporters: Because Of You, The Hardest Glass Ceiling Has "18 Million Cracks In It" 2009
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Also, as a confirmed disliker of Romney I live in Massachusetts, where he was the drive-by governor, I, too, will be choked up if it's Palin.
Live-blogging the McCain VP announcement. UPDATE: "MCCAIN PICKS SARAH PALIN." Ann Althouse 2008
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For a vegetable-disliker like me, a good way to get some tomatoes into me.
More on the ‘low-carb’ study at the AHA meeting | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Anonymous disliker of Stinky the Hamster -- if you use Firefox or similar and have NoScript installed, you can get rid of poor little Stinky by turning off scripts from BunnyHeroLabs.com.
The 7/7 CCTV question Rachel 2006
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I figured it was unlikely I would walk out of the cinema converted to Miller having been a long-time disliker of his comics; since That Yellow Bastard, in fact, though I was never that bothered about anything of his other than Dark Knight Returns and Ronin.
Seeing films for peer discussion jinty 2005
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A disliker of coarse expressions and extremes of every kind, with a perfect horror for revolutions and attempts to revolutionize, exclaiming now and then, as a shriek escapes from whipped and bleeding
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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A disliker of coarse expressions, and extremes of every kind, with a perfect horror for revolutions and attempts to revolutionize, exclaiming now and then, as a shriek escapes from whipped and bleeding
The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842
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I believe that this sort of dislike is only shown by the jealous, and that it renders the disliker even more miserable, because more continually conscious than the object; but the growing evidence of Jemima's feeling made Ruth very unhappy at times.
Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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