(v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.
(v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease.
(n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.
(n.) Discord; dissension.
Example Sentences:
(1) It created a very ugly atmosphere in society – as I was growing up in politics, I disliked the hypocrisy where people had to conceal their own identity.
(2) Other measures to promote justice and co-operation against criminals who pay no attention to European frontiers are also being thrown out of the window as May enters the cabinet "EU exit competition" – apparently to see which minister can parade his or her dislike of the EU the most.
(3) If you actively dislike nature, you're more likely to build a car park on it.
(4) For mothers, disliking the treatment was related to family members seeking further treatment.
(5) They were on the whole satisfied with antenatal classes (there seemed to be a need for more information in the form of an on-the-ward postnatal class), disliked the practice of perineal shaves (but did not object to enemas or rupture of membranes) and felt they had adequate analgesia (although not for after-pains or the discomfort of haemorrhoids in the puerperium).
(6) It has been very easy for people to call for a ban, she says, "but I think you should stand up for choices that you wouldn't necessarily choose for yourself, or that you even dislike.
(7) During the first Republican presidential debate, Kelly questioned whether Trump had the temperament for the job, given that he had called women he disliked “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” in the past.
(8) Responses relating to sexuality image and contraceptive attitudes indicate that a greater proportion of the terminators dislike an internal IUD self string check, hold a more pro-pregnancy attitude, do not feel dependent on the availability of contraceptives, and currently utilize the less effective contraceptive methods.
(9) Almost two-thirds of voters disliked the tone of the immigration debate during the Brexit referendum campaign, a report has found, including a majority of leave voters and Ukip supporters.
(10) And if there is some patronising note in your question about that glossed-over quality of many other American films then I would say: I dislike that, too.
(11) Boosted by two letters in yesterday's Financial Times signed by more than 60 economists endorsing the government's decision to delay spending cuts until next year, Brown said yesterday: "Conservative dislike of government, bordering on hatred of government action, would risk recovery now."
(12) With her background in radio, news and current affairs her supporters say she realises that if she wants to be director general she needs more populist programming and the "shiny floor experience" that the Vision post would bring - but she dislikes exposure so much it is not obvious she would enjoy the public pressures of the top job.
(13) That is why – despite my instinctive dislike of high marginal tax rates – I have stuck with the 50p tax.
(14) The candidates, he said, were angry with the party for allowing the debates to take place in a way that they dislike – both in terms of the moderators, and in terms of sheer length.
(15) It wasn't like he disliked Canada , or anything, for all that he chose to live elsewhere, and for so long.
(16) Allen may be reaping the reward of keeping non-Italian press out of the first screenings (the version released in Italy has a dubbed dialogue track, which Allen is known to dislike) as he tends to get a better response from non-native critics, who are less attentive to implausible details.
(17) More Asian patients disliked management of illness by telephone than non-Asian patients, the latter feeling that telephone advice could save them a trip to the surgery, or their general practitioner a home visit.
(18) The likes and dislikes of the target children were cross-tabulated with those of their mothers, fathers, and siblings, and phi-statistics were computed for the child-mother, child-father and child-sibling pairs as measures of similarity in food preferences.
(19) Although the House of Commons can occasionally veto a ministerial initiative it dislikes – witness the Syrian vote – it almost never does.
(20) "Even though I dislike intensely a lot of the habits of the nasty bits of Fleet Street, one should not by any means confine those [critcisms] just to the papers controlled by Rupert Murdoch.
Odious
Definition:
(a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
(a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.
Example Sentences:
(1) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(2) Theodore Olson, the lead co-counsel for two of the Virginia plaintiffs, described it as a “ great day” for Virginia and said he looked forward to working with Herring to strike down the state's “odious marriage ban”.
(3) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(4) Bear-baiting was an odious entertainment, but remained legal in Britain until 1835, when it was banned by parliament.
(5) – and few Democrats had trouble understanding why such a "request" was so odious.
(6) Odious debt is a legal term usually applied to the endowments of dictators in the developing world.
(7) Surkov himself, ever ironic and self-possessed, has quipped that he is "too odious for this brave new world".
(8) They required Cameron's personal stamp of approval on an odious regime before signing.
(9) I know that the chances of getting any of this debt recognised as odious, especially by the current government, are small to say the least.
(10) And for an internet campaign, it is the answer to dealing with the odious pick-up artist and “guru” Julien Blanc .
(11) Those who still cling to the worryingly fashionable idea that the British Empire was ultimately a force for civilisation, order and the building of railways should now look away; the presence of the Cajun people in Louisiana attests to one of the more odious chapters of our colonial history.
(12) In a brief statement, Sarkozy told Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg that he condemned "with the utmost gravity this odious and unacceptable action" that had taken place, and conveyed French sympathy to the Norwegian people.
(13) Robin Williams's schoolteacher in 2009's World's Greatest Dad is plagued by his odious teen.
(14) President Barack Obama rebranded the "war on terror" innocuously as "overseas contingency operations", but, rather than retrench from the odious practices of his predecessor, Obama instead escalated.
(15) I can excoriate, deplore and refuse all dealings with odious speech or publication.
(16) US president Barack Obama called it "odious" and said it is "unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are".
(17) When the bill was first proposed, Barack Obama called it "odious".
(18) "[He's] completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters," wrote the influential reviewer about the novel, in a huge change of heart from her dissection of Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone in 2006 , which she called "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly self-absorbed".
(19) A prime minister using such irresponsible and odious language about desperate people deserves widespread criticism.
(20) If the extremist’s opinions are demonstrably odious and absurd, then what better way could there possibly be to expose them than the bright light of open, public debate?