What does disrelish mean?
Disrelish means A lack of relish: distaste.
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/dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/ · noun
A lack of relish: distaste.
Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.
The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are told, was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him
The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
[…] that those eyes may glow With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.
"I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian.
They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.
[T]hey fonldy thinking to allay / Thir appetite with guſt, inſtead of Fruit / Chewd bitter Aſhes, which th'offended taſte / With ſpattering noiſe rejected: oft they aſſayd, / Hunger and thrift conſtraining, drugd as oft, / With hatefulleſt diſreliſh writh'd thir jaws / With ſoot and cinders fill'd [...]
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Disrelish means A lack of relish: distaste.
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Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.
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