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    Use "dislike" in a sentence

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    1. Enoch interrupts, ignoring John’s obvious dislike for the conversation


    2. ‘No, but there is no denying that a lot of employers dislike taking on staff who are older and more experienced than they are


    3. about war came to me when my father took a strong dislike to my mother’s collection


    4. You dislike the stuff and that is that


    5. I could go on for a whole book writing ecstatically of the wonder and the glories of honey but let it suffice to say that if you think you dislike honey then try all the different ones you can find


    6. ‘That’s absurd, Dave! As if my mother could dislike anything in trousers!’


    7. Despite Arbnor Jasari's inherent dislike of provincial life he is too smart to make a beeline for bright city lights


    8. Both of them have developed an extreme dislike of the day


    9. had a dislike of watercraft of any type and in any


    10. People paid little attention to Sammy because scarcely anyone liked his aunt, and this dislike of her took its toll on Sammy’s social life

    11. Although she doesn’t dislike cats, they just aren’t dogs


    12. As you will see later during our PT sessions we developed a strong dislike for other platoons, so making them pay for services was well within the rules


    13. You may be sure that we took our revenge when we could for a healthy dislike existed between the platoons


    14. They then gave us a wonderful exhibition of boxing, since the cadet turned out to be a good amateur boxer with a dislike for that particular PT Sergeant


    15. He should be grateful for the life lesson and I started to dislike all male teachers


    16. I describe this in my book Mean Streets - Life in the Apartheid Police as follows: "During my time a healthy dislike between the Army and Police existed


    17. Before we leave this subject I want to say that I don’t dislike Chaplains and I apologise if some of the above has offended you


    18. Many thousands of Europeans and a few Americans buy property in Cape Town (South Africa) because it is a beautiful place to live though I dislike it being too green


    19. The one defining event for those who dislike him was the Iran hostage crisis


    20. rewarding the very thing that we dislike and sometimes ignore the very behavior that

    21. With these devices, you could actually get the point of some of these alien jokes, which were more about male bonding than any real strife, conflict or dislike


    22. Hilderich had known Amonas to be circumspect at times, taciturn and almost spartan with his words, but he had never showed feelings of dislike or animosity towards him


    23. Norman Douglas was perfectly aware of her dislike and he chuckled over it


    24. It did not even make him dislike them in return, for he took it as a kind of extorted compliment


    25. and dislike, and having the guts to express it


    26. emotions, intelligence, the things you like, and dislike, and the will


    27. But his dislike for the man ran deeper


    28. Zeus knew of the affair Enisei had with the woman and, even though he did not dislike humans, he did not like that woman and he could not like the child that was born


    29. It was easier pretending to dislike him


    30. You can find out what their customers like or dislike about them, as well as questions they have

    31. There was no love lost between Mike and himself, but he could not believe that the dislike would manifest itself so violently


    32. As she grew older, however, her initial dislike grew, and with reason


    33. “My point is that despite her aversion to the experience and her quite normal dislike of pain, she was still able to achieve ecstasy, for every kind of arousal causes most of the same reactions in our bodies


    34. who dislike strays and see it as the only solution for getting rid of them


    35. ” Her eyes went to Morgan, “Their dislike for one another simply comes with the territory


    36. Whether it was from dislike or inartic�ulation brought on by being around a living legend, Court couldn't tell


    37. Each man quite accomplished in their own right and all brought their own unique set of skills and experience to the table – they were united in their dislike for the Brotherhood


    38. This was rather deliciously subversive—were she not determined on dislike it would have won him a smile


    39. I think the reason that I avoided naming this secret was because I dislike the word 'discipline


    40. Either nodding in agreement or dislike, I couldn’t tell

    41. Honestly, at that time, I had already started to dislike my job


    42. I dislike receiving presents and therefore don’t think to give them


    43. questions regarding hatred and dislike and our struggle as I saw it


    44. She was a difficult woman, prone to violent outbursts of temper; seemed to dislike men


    45. When she heard that Reginald‘s mother had kicked him out, Desolé was at first pleased, as that confirmed her dislike of Mrs


    46. However, learning how to communicate what you both need, like and dislike in bed is one of the best steps that you can possibly take to have more and better sex


    47. ’ It had been a calculated gamble, admitting his dislike, but he had read both the deputy and the guidance counsellor correctly


    48. He made no bones about his admiration for Mr Vaselly, his liking for Mr Rands and Ralf Boreham, his dislike of Lance, and his distaste for the dead headmaster


    49. changed into dislike if its object violates our canons of conduct, or acts in


    50. Only Megan would openly express her dislike of Lydia using me for my money and social status








































    1. In the decades since, she'd tried to convince everyone, including herself, that she disliked him and had sent him away


    2. Did you then decide never to buy apples again because you disliked the taste of sour ones? There are very many different honeys


    3. arguments, the truth is often disliked and a lie nicely


    4. knew that Tragus was widely disliked by the Ithacans


    5. He disliked not knowing what was going on back there


    6. At the side was a man he immediately disliked the the look of – someone who clearly spent a lot of time at the gym and generally appeared to have a certain vanity about him, with his carefully styled hair


    7. He had already had dealings with Jarad Goldman, the foreman of one of several mining teams, and each man disliked the other


    8. Chris had disliked Brett the first time he had any dealings with him, and he just knew that he respected him even less now


    9. The one polisher especially disliked me and tried to shock me numerous times


    10. They quickly became one of us and disliked returning to their units and did sterling work

    11. Guess what? My dog disliked swimming and flatly refused to enter the pool, which admittedly was ice cold and green and smelly, it being winter


    12. It was not for everyone and thus we were disliked by those not blessed with such inclinations (all jealous longhaired liberals I say)


    13. Why? Simply because I got bitten when I was younger when my clients' business partner (fellow shareholder) decided to leave after a few months and offered his shares at a ridiculous price to him! He either had to buy it or end up with a shareholder he disliked even more


    14. I disliked them on principle being meaner than my beloved Casspirs


    15. That particular officer was a plastic policeman from Police HQ who we disliked intensely being an idiot on his first bush trip and worse, a pathetic leader of men


    16. * It will always be a puzzle to me why Winnie Mandela was not killed / executed by the Security Police for she was intensely disliked by all ranks and all units


    17. And the fact that you were a "law student" did not particularly impress us either for we disliked all lawyers on principle


    18. Nothing much happened to him in court but I heard a rumour he was sorted out in the cells by a tough criminal who disliked wife-beaters


    19. A lot of thought went into the design but we disliked it on principle


    20. Hoped they were sorted out in to the police canteens where they were not welcome and generally disliked anyway

    21. Why? Simply because I got bitten when I was younger when my client's business partner (fellow shareholder) decided to leave after a few months and offered his shares at a ridiculous price to him! He either had to buy it or end up with a shareholder he disliked even more


    22. The tribesmen certainly disliked the idea of white farmers taking over their lands and the broken traditions and had much to complain about


    23. They also send me a book of poems by a well-known Afrikaner poet I disliked intensely


    24. It is quite striking to see how many presidents hailed as supposed our greatest were actually among our worst, and almost as striking to see some of our most disliked among our best in saving lives


    25. Hunter truly disliked shopping


    26. I have disliked her since my father’s dinner-table rants began, but now I hate her


    27. She disliked it when her hair was up in a ponytail, or when she skipped lunch, but at Ash’s request she was doing both


    28. She disliked so much to be alone that thinking aloud was one of her devices for circumventing unwelcome solitude


    29. Much as I disliked hunting, I would have to do some


    30. “But, those who disliked the journey appeared

    31. How he met Elena, how they shared knowledge, how many times they fought and how many times they disagreed on ideas, how she loved blades and how much he disliked them


    32. We all disliked my brothers, Ishvara and Jiva slightly more most likely, there was no blood lost in their relationship, metaphorically speaking, because in mine and my brothers’ case, well, it literally did happen


    33. that the guards disliked social workers


    34. Jesse disliked Rachel for several reasons, but most of all, she hated the way she flirted with Gabriel


    35. but we disliked both the old male pastor (Conklin) and his very


    36. Although, there were States that disliked Slavery, there where States where Slavery thrived


    37. Joanne also intensely disliked the delays engendered by Stan’s, then my, insistence that the lab’s policies and procedures regarding green sheets and Program Directives be followed to the letter


    38. did not have the heart to tell him how much I struggled and disliked


    39. He disliked buying his stuff from street urchins


    40. “Miss Jane now, would never enter the hothouse as she disliked getting herself dirty

    41. He disliked the doctors, possibly due to feelings of intellectual inferiority


    42. Why did they need to bring them here? He disliked anything out of the usual, but remembered his place and swiftly bowed before Saznack


    43. Eventually he came across the first chamber that he had been seeking, a plain room illuminated with a crimson light which was totally empty apart from a small platform on which sat a red crystal the size of a man’s head, its magic radiated a presence of power that Corvus instantly disliked


    44. He was all the things I'd originally disliked about Zoe, with none of the good I'd come to appreciate


    45. Dad's plans, more than for any other things she disliked in


    46. She separated a little displeased by the penetrating aroma, the exuberant smell of the fresh grasses had always disliked her as they awoke her allergy and if that was not sufficient, they detached its unpleasant steams impregnating the ambience with a smell of mellow and rotten fat; she preferred the dehydrated ones that had a light fragrance but were also powerful


    47. It’s the same reason I've always disliked team sports and parties


    48. Unlike his parents and siblings he disliked his cousins, aunts and uncles and the weekly get togethers with their drinking, singing, smoking, eating, fighting, arguing


    49. As much as they disliked him, he seemed to have all the answers when it came to their


    50. He’d sometimes wished he was different in some way, but never disliked himself









































    1. · Know the main events of your grandchildren's lives--not only what sports they are playing and when they have days off from school, but also their likes, dislikes, successes, and failures


    2. Once you have a fairly clear idea about your likes and dislikes you are in a better


    3. I thought I'd have to give you a list of his likes and dislikes


    4. Yes, it is the combination of both partner's pleasures and dislikes that


    5. Each animal had its own likes and dislikes to be sure, and each family that boarded their horses with the stable each had their own routines for the use of those animals


    6. You can tell me your likes, dislikes, and ask me any questions you might have


    7. However, police dogs had no choice regarding their likes or dislikes according to standing orders, and he should have known better


    8. Simply America was forever distrusted afterwards and placed in almost the same category as Britain which is not good for as I am sure I explained before the Afrikaner dislikes the English instinctively


    9. and fears, likes and dislikes


    10. dislikes; neither accepts nor rejects

    11. M: When the content is viewed without likes and dislikes, the


    12. Are you both in the same zone of energy, activities, likes, and dislikes? That is the more appropriate question


    13. She dislikes all nurses


    14. Whoever initiates actions after controlling all his sense organs with his mind (getting over his likes and dislikes, and selfish desires) and without (selfish) attachment (to results), succeeds


    15. I told him it was perfect – which it was for me, being a tight-arse who dislikes visitors at the back door


    16. We’ll discuss ways that you find out from her what she wants in bed, what her likes and dislikes are


    17. Start off with an equal understanding that it’s pretty unrealistic to expect each other to automatically know each other's likes and dislikes in bed


    18. definitely on his guard lest his own predilections or dislikes should in any


    19. Everyone in the household also had their likes and dislikes when it came to food


    20. He dislikes Hammond almost as much as I do

    21. Such things would include her likes, dislikes, and whether she is involved with someone or not


    22. My thoughts, feelings, likes, dislikes, attitude, character, personality, roles, desires, needs, and beliefs may have changed considerably over the years, but the sense of ‗I‘ has not


    23. It would make him feel good that you are interested in his experiences, opinions, likes, as well as dislikes


    24. Each mind has preferences, fears, likes and dislikes


    25. When he dislikes somebody, he stops at nuthin’


    26. Conventional warfare has been replaced by genocide and attacking a country mainly because the aggressor dislikes the other nation or what the latter represents


    27. His likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses and in short, each and everything which any human bei


    28. Avoiding people, place and things are very common, which you just refer to as likes and dislikes, but it is much more than that


    29. You might find yourself prejudice against certain races, though you mistake your prejudice for basic likes and dislikes


    30. While the psychopath has likes and dislikes and fondness for the

    31. Likes and dislikes are more markedly present in the vegetable kingdom than in the mineral


    32. There is nothing which the dark, natural heart of man dislikes so much as the so-called "blood theology


    33. Surely, it is stupid to expect hosannas from any, leave alone all, and so I would’ve still respected him had he remained indifferent to me as ever for all have their own likes and dislikes


    34. They shared their likes, dislikes and fears


    35. So how is the principled conservative to resolve the matter? Is a person"s sexuality the same immutable characteristic as race, gender or hair color, that cannot change (well, absent surgery or hair coloring)? We would rightly call anyone a bigot who dislikes or hates a person solely because of such a characteristic


    36. But based on what you currently know, what are your preferences? Are the likes stronger than the dislikes or vice versa?


    37. In this case, it’s missing a verb, and will usually come across as something such as, “She dislikes me


    38. He sits in the stands and watches the archery competition, even though he really doesn't care as long as no one he dislikes wins


    39. She had briefed him on all of Alexandra's likes and dislikes


    40. is stirring up unrest, and Herod is a man who dislikes

    41. 16 The girl's father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her


    42. We’ve had our share of fights, cold silences, and personal dislikes of each other in amidst the joys of our marriage


    43. likes, dislikes and spending time with them


    44. We are universal in our likes and dislikes


    45. � But otherwise, give out your likes and dislikes, your interests, and favorite books honestly


    46. Use your imagination, and if the person you are providing archival references to prefers a certain era, then look for pictures categorically through old picture books and regular national newspapers that meet his or her likes and dislikes


    47. Good he pronounces to be that in which the beast delights and evil to be that which he dislikes; and he can give no other account of them except that the just and noble are the necessary, having never himself seen, and having no power of explaining to others the nature of either, or the difference between them, which is immense


    48. characteristics, their likes and dislikes


    49. For instance, he dislikes the theatre


    50. On the other hand, Gregory dislikes Philemon – says he can’t be trusted












    1. disliking is subordinate to the strength of their purpose


    2. To compensate for disliking her child, having gone to so much trouble to get one, she read every book she could lay her hands on about bringing up children


    3. field, but she does remember her friend disliking the term


    4. It worked; he took a distinct disliking to Max and suggested his boss try and help


    5. Disliking tobacco smoke, Ingrid chose the farthest table from them in order not to be bothered by the strong smell of French cigarettes while eating


    6. recalled with a disliking shudder how she had hardly been married to him at all, as he had always


    7. Disliking this method, I have tried to make my garden increase in loveliness, if not in tidiness, the farther you get into it; and the visitor who thinks in his innocence as he emerges from the shade of the verandah that he sees the best before him, is artfully conducted from beauty to beauty till he beholds what I think is the most charming bit, the silver birch and azalea plantation down at the very end


    8. 'There is the sea,' he said, not without impatience at being forced to state the obvious; and disliking, I suppose, the tone of my remarks, he hurried downstairs


    9. disliking, and this will pave the way for future potential resolutions with the other person


    10. If that was the case, then she couldn't blame him for disliking the man that chased him across the country when he was just doing his job

    11. He tried to imagine his long bleak life without her, and disliking the thought, pushed Centaur harder and faster


    12. “Who was he then?” Bane wanted to know, disliking the idea of things happening


    13. Disliking the idea of his brother in harms way, another option flickered in for Hanor


    14. “I still do not follow,” Hallen said, disliking this


    15. His mother disowning him and disliking him


    16. However instead of being enthralled with the man of bronze and the commanding presence of his scowling gaze I found myself rather disliking him


    17. She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed with the spirited determination of disliking her at all events


    18. I’d resisted liking him with the same fervent intensity I’d devoted to disliking Barrons


    19. That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water, (his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language


    20. She thanked God that her sister was the poorest of correspondents, delighting to receive letters and disliking to write them

    21. At least, said the ladies and near Atlanta, seldom speaking to each other, obviously disliking each other, but of the town, it’s better than riding around so brazenly with that Butler man


    22. "Well, well, you can do without me, that's pretty clear," said old Featherstone, secretly disliking the possibility that Fred would show himself at all independent


    23. "I don't mean that it's of any consequence," said Sir James, disliking that Mrs


    24. Behavioral finance looks to understand and explain investors' natural and evolutionarily supported tendencies toward—to name a few—overconfidence, sticking with the herd, panicking in the face of trouble, disliking losses more than they like gains, falling in love with what they own, overweighting more recent information, and craving the big score


    25. "That doesn't depend on me, as you know—when they tell me," he muttered, as though disliking the question; but at the same time with evident readiness to answer any other question


    26. Oh, tell me, who was it first announced, who was it first proclaimed, that man only does nasty things because he does not know his own interests; and that if he were enlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man would at once cease to do nasty things, would at once become good and noble because, being enlightened and understanding his real advantage, he would see his own advantage in the good and nothing else, and we all know that not one man can, consciously, act against his own interests, consequently, so to say, through necessity, he would begin doing good? Oh, the babe! Oh, the pure, innocent child! Why, in the first place, when in all these thousands of years has there been a time when man has acted only from his own interest? What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and by nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, wilfully, struck out another difficult, absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness


    27. Besides disliking and despising the sciences, he despised all who laboured to attain what he himself had mastered so easily, since the sciences, as he understood them, did not occupy one-tenth part of his powers


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    Synonyms for "dislike"

    disapproval disfavor disfavour dislike dissatisfaction antagonism antipathy disinclination disgust disrelish offence detest condemn

    "dislike" definitions

    an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group


    a feeling of aversion or antipathy


    have or feel a dislike or distaste for