Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Offensive to the taste; disgusting.
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- verb Present participle of
disrelish .
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Examples
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And men that grow strange after acquaintance, seldom piece together again, as those that have tasted meat and dislike it, out of a mutual experience disrelishing one another.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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-- What can be more ridiculous, than a Wretch setting up for an _Humourist_, merely upon the Strength of disrelishing every Thing, without any Principle; -- The
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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He stared forward, across his littered table, beyond his bookcases, through his thick-lensed glasses, as if confronting the stiffening legend of a husband too old, too dry, too unpliable; the victim, finally, of a sudden turn that was peculiarly malapropos and disrelishing, the head of a household tricked rather ridiculously before the world.
On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller
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His language and his illustrations touched an old-school chord in the Rev.Mr. Hampton-Evey, who hummed over the project, profoundly disrelishing the introductory portion.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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His language and his illustrations touched an old-school chord in the Rev.Mr. Hampton-Evey, who hummed over the project, profoundly disrelishing the introductory portion.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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His language and his illustrations touched an old-school chord in the Rev.Mr. Hampton-Evey, who hummed over the project, profoundly disrelishing the introductory portion.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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_Latinus Latinius_ therefore very rashly and absurdly blames _Apicius_, on account of certain preparations which to him, forsooth, were disrelishing. '
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Christianity than Pharisaism is, nor any thing more disrelishing to a soul truly devout than their hypocritical devotions.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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That the king of Israel, who hated God's prophet, should so far disbelieve his admonition as to persist in his resolution, notwithstanding, is not strange; but that Jehoshaphat, that pious prince, who had desired to enquire by a prophet of the Lord, as disrelishing and discrediting
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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