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Definition of "disrelish" [dis•rel•ish]

  • To have distaste for; dislike. (verb-transitive)
  • Distaste; aversion. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "disrelish" in a sentence
  • "Defect of substantial reasons must be compensated somehow; and no compensation for it is more obvious, or is oftener called into play, than an air of impatient contempt towards those who disrelish ipsedixitism."
  • "Perhaps as inversions abound generally in sonnets, it may be the principal cause of my disrelish for them."
  • "By this we distinguish objects of relish and disrelish, according to the seasons; and the same things do not always please us."