单词 | distaste |
释义 | distaste (once / 2360 pages) n When you're disgusted by something, or simply dislike it, you have a distaste for it. You might have such a distaste for the smell of meat cooking that you only go to vegetarian restaurants. Some people have a distaste for living in the suburbs, while others feel distaste at the thought of living packed into a large city with millions of other people. You might have a distaste for the sport of boxing, while your boxing-loving cousin's distaste is for ice dancing and synchronized swimming. When something's just not your taste — you don't care for it — you can say you have a distaste for it. WORD FAMILYdistaste: distastes+/distasteful: distastefully, distastefulness/foretaste: foretastes/taste: distaste, foretaste, tasted, tasteful, tasteless, taster, tastes, tasting, tasty/tasted: untasted/tasteful: distasteful, tastefully, tastefulness/tasteless: tastelessly, tastelessness/taster: tasters/tasting: tastings/tasty: tastier, tastiest, tastily, tastiness USAGE EXAMPLESThird-party candidates attracted more attention this year as factions of both major political parties expressed distaste for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) The one exception: the mountain states, where growing Hispanic populations and Mormon distaste for Trump provided some of the sharpest swings for the Democrats. Time(Dec 01, 2016) While some leaders of the alt-right reject some of those terms, they are generally unabashed in their distaste for multiculturalism. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) n a feeling of intense dislike Syn|Hyper antipathy, aversion dislike a feeling of aversion or antipathy |
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