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Definition of Dislikers
1. disliker [n] - See also: disliker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dislikers
Literary usage of Dislikers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... dislikers of learning are growne so valiant in impudence, that now they set
vp their faces (like Turks) of gray paper, to be spet at for siluer game in ..."
2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1842)
"... dislikers of learning are growne so valiant in impudence, that now they set
vp their faces (like Turks) of gray paper, to be spet at for siluer game in ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... idolater in a day of easy sympathies, and a great lover and hater, while we
are mainly likers and dislikers, he refuses to come into conventional range. ..."
4. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift, Temple Scott (1902)
"... that the dislikers, out of dullness or affectation will be silent, and forced
to fall in with the herd; the point I mean, is what we call humour, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1829)
"... because I am informed, that it has stirred much conversation and commentary
amongst the surviving friends, no less than amongst the dislikers, ..."
6. Collected Essays and Reviews by William James (1920)
"All makers of architectonic systems like that of Kant, all multipliers of original
principles, all dislikers of vague monotony, whether it bear the ..."
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