Sentence examples for to distaste from inspiring English sources

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to distaste

noun

A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.

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Koons's mark is in the giddy layering, the saturation of the images with things we lust for, in such quantities and lush colouring that desire turns to distaste.

Moody, his smile yielding to distaste, moves on to 19-year-old Jenna Bush's court hearing, related to an alcohol-related incident.

Nonetheless, bosoms are seen as cheap, embarrassing, even – gasp! – unfashionable, and are treated with an attitude close to distaste by many in the women's fashion business.

An avowed admirer of his greatness, she is refreshingly unforgiving about his 'dark side', giving full vent to distaste for his chronic meanness to family members".

Chaplin's own comic fascination with Hollywood's studios seems to have turned to distaste for its profligate riot, and he never filmed its behind-the-scenes work again (though he did satirize Hollywood movies in the last film he both directed and starred in, "A King in New York," from 1957).

The mania that Wilkie Collins called "detective fever" suddenly shifted to "distaste for the working-class fellow who had meddled in middle-class affairs" and the fear that such troublemakers might eventually breach the sanctity of one's own home and mess all over the drawing-room carpet, as W. H. Auden put it in his classic essay "The Guilty Vicarage".

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Given the success of trailer download sites – which have millions of people volunteering to be advertised to – this distaste must have to do with the compulsion rather than the trailer.

Or — a more disconcerting truth for an American liberal to tangle with — did it not seem extremely provincial to allow distaste for George W. Bush to blind one to the evil of Saddam Hussein?

Finally, to my distaste, I had to look for a job.

This week, Mr Sarkozy once again declared: "We want a capitalism of entrepreneurs, not a capitalism of speculators".Mr Sarkozy may simply be pandering to popular distaste but this does seem to reflect a limited sympathy for economic liberalism.

Why shouldn't I be able to express my distaste to somebody putting their 'essence' all up in my face?

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