DISTASTE in a Sentence

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For DISTASTE, below is one of 36 sentences:
As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTASTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distaste
 n.  a feeling of intense dislike
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  For a moment, her self-justification buoyed her up but still she looked about the hall with distaste.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  She took the wet gourd dipper from him, her nostrils wrinkling in distaste at the reek.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Stooping over the dead man with distaste, she unbuttoned the remaining buttons of his jacket and systematically began rifling his pockets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Even in her sorrow at Gerald's death, she did not forget the appearance she was making and she looked down at her body with distaste.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  She lay back, looking about the poor slit of a room with a renewal of physical distaste.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
7  Lily felt for these objects the same distaste which the prisoner may entertain for the fittings of the court-room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
8  Carol was working up a small passion of distaste.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  As she dragged homeward Carol looked with distaste at her clay-loaded rubbers, the smeared hem of her skirt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  Carol was fond of Maud Dyer, because she had been particularly agreeable lately; had obviously repented of the nervous distaste which she had once shown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  Thus from the first life regarded the little Chichikov with sour distaste, and as through a dim, frost-encrusted window.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
12  But wise is the reader who, on meeting such a character, scans him carefully, and, instead of shrinking from him with distaste, probes him to the springs of his being.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
13  "Anyhow he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  Mr. Duffy, however, had a distaste for underhand ways and, finding that they were compelled to meet stealthily, he forced her to ask him to her house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
15  When it came to brickmaking, their distaste for manual labour in connection with book education became especially manifest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
Example Sentence:
1  I rolled my eyes upward to indicate distaste at this telephonic excess.
2  His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known.
3  Do you find the punk rock band Green Day a highly exceptionable, thoroughly distasteful group, or do you think they are exceptionally talented performers?.
4  I find his attitude highly distasteful.