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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mislike .
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Examples
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Thus we cannot escape our likes and mislikes, exiles or am-busheers, beggar and neighbour and — this is where the dime — show advertisers advance the temporal relief plea — let us be tolerant of antipathies.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"My first you put on glowing coal And into it you put my whole My second really is the first My third mislikes the winter blast."
Partners In Crime Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984
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Hildigunna was standing close by, and said, "It is ill if it mislikes thee, for this we did with a whole heart."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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If the Auto-Comrade mislikes the porcupine, however, the feeling is returned with exorbitant interest.
The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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Should I mark aught that mislikes me, you shall know it forthwith.
Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat Henrik Ibsen 1867
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'Not you -- not Lucy; it is your father's widow whom she mislikes.
Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Emma Marshall 1864
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Although there is no Man alive who mislikes Popery and its Superstitious
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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"Yea indeed, and I trow it," quoth the Saxon, even in that day a grumbler; "but I take it, the main difference between thee and me is, that I can say what mislikes me out like a man; and it would fare ill with thy limbs or thy life if thou wert as frank in the grim land of thy heretogh."
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Yea indeed, and I trow it," quoth the Saxon, even in that day a grumbler; "but I take it, the main difference between thee and me is, that I can say what mislikes me out like a man; and it would fare ill with thy limbs or thy life if thou wert as frank in the grim land of thy heretogh."
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Society, 1692, folio, "a kind of common theatre where every person may act, or take such part as pleases him best, and what he does not like he may pass over, assuring himself that, every one's judgment not being like his, another may chuse what he mislikes, and so every one may be pleased in their turns."
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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