dislike
/dɪsˈlaɪk/ verb B1- To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
- To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet. · Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.
Plural dislike · He/she/it dislikes · Past disliked · Past participle disliked · -ing form disliking
Verb forms
- Base form
- dislike
- He/she/it
- dislikes
- Past
- disliked
- Past participle
- disliked
- -ing form
- disliking
From the library
The sisters, on hearing this, repeated three or four times how much they were grieved, how shocking it was to have a bad cold, and how excessively they disliked being ill themselves; and then thought no more of the matter: and their indifference towards Jane, when not immediately before them, restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her original dislike.
“You dislike an argument, and want to silence this.”
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man, and yet that he should look at her because he disliked her was still more strange.
She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance.
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