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Dislike

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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Alienation 76% connected

The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

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Anglophobia 76% connected

Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English.

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Antagonism 76% connected

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

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Antipathy 76% connected

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

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Aversion 76% connected

A turning away.

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Contempt 76% connected

The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

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Despite 76% connected

Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

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Disaffection 76% connected

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.

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Disapproval 76% connected

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

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Disdain 76% connected

A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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Disgust 76% connected

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…

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Disinclination 76% connected

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.

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Distaste 76% connected

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

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Estrangement 76% connected

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.

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Reprobation 76% connected

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

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Scorn 76% connected

Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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Scunner 76% connected

To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

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Detest 76% connected

To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

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Hate 76% connected

To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to de…

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Resent 76% connected

To be sensible of; to feel

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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Disapprove 72% connected

To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprov…

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Synonym 2

Disapproval 92% connected

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

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Disfavor 92% connected

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

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Like 94% connected

Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the part…

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Like 94% connected

Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the part…

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