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"Distaste" in a Sentence (14 examples)
My apathy for voting comes from my distaste for politics.
After hours of browsing TV Tropes, Lyle could predict the ending of any show. This gave him a distaste for entertainment that, in a roundabout way, enabled him to make time for a more productive life.
All the old despots were demagogues; at least, they were demagogues whenever they were really trying to please or impress the demos. If they poured out beer for their vassals it was because both they and their vassals had a taste for beer. If (in some slightly different mood) they poured melted lead on their vassals, it was because both they and their vassals had a strong distaste for melted lead.
Believe that I understand your distaste.
He said both men agreed they share an "abhorrence and distaste" for war.
Adriano explained his distaste for Rima.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
On the part of Heav'n / Now alienated, diſtance and diſtaste,
How may I auoyde / (Although my will diſtaſte what it elected) / The Wife I choſe, there can be no euaſion / To blench from this, and to ſtand firme by honour.
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Plato made it a great ſigne of an intemperate and corrupt common-wealth, where Lawyers and Phyſitians did abound, and the Romanes diſtaſted them ſo much, that they were often baniſhed out of theire city, as Pliny and Celſus relate, for 600 yeares not admitted.
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]
He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
And vvhat auayl'd his Anſvver in that Caſe? / VVhich the time then did vtterly diſtaſte, / And look'd vpon him vvith ſo ſterne a Face, / As it his Actions vtterly diſgrac'd: […]
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