Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To disapprove of; dislike.
- transitive verb Archaic To displease.
- noun Disapproval; dislike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of not liking; misliking; aversion.
- To displease; be displeasing to.
- To be averse to; disapprove of; dislike.
- To offend; disgust.
- To be displeased or offended; disapprove: followed by of or with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
- verb To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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One of the things I mislike about fan fiction is its NAME.
Someone Is Angry On the Internet grrm 2010
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One of the things I mislike about fan fiction is its NAME.
More Odds, More Ends grrm 2010
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See, my concern is that our merely complaining about it may provoke them into defending themselves by pointing to the values of Free speech, accusing their critics of censorship (a poor argument, but people who mislike criticism mistake it for censorship all the time), or by saying, "Well, we WARNED you not to enter this thread if you're easily offended, so if you came in anyway and got offended that's your own fault!"
Go! Now! Start! Dave Hingsburger 2007
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How shall the marriage be brought about, seeing I mislike to open the matter?
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Shaykh replied, ‘For that Allah hath made the masculine worthier than the feminine; and I like the excelling and mislike the excelled.’
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‘If thy cousin be as thou hast described him, it would not mislike us to make acquaintance with him.’
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I never thought the day would come when I could mislike a coffee for being artificially flavoured … alas.
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Not that I altogether mislike banks, but they will hardly be brooked, in regard of certain suspicions.
The Essays 2007
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Nor did the service of the knights mislike the queen.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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From the same it proceedeth that men give different names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions: as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion; but has only a greater tincture of choler.
Leviathan 2007
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