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Definition of Distastes
1. distaste [v] - See also: distaste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distastes
Literary usage of Distastes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"No man was better fitted to adorn any Disappoint- circle he entered, but beyond
that of friends and equals he distastes. rarely passed. ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without
comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1895)
"In the ordinary distastes. working class districts the inferior and the better
... Use also gives rise to acquired distastes as well as to acquired tastes. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Court of King James the First by Lucy Aikin (1822)
"In the time of your being here, admitting that their proceedings have been in
many things unworthy of you, and that divers distastes have grown by inter- ..."
5. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"... but the devil's end in all is, that God may be violated and dishonoured in
that sin: and therefore by casting in ill conceptions and distastes first, ..."
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