(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.
Repulsion
Definition:
(n.) The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.
(n.) A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
(n.) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.
Example Sentences:
(1) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
(2) Following Nagle, we assume that the steric repulsions between chains and between head groups and the trans-gauche rotation energies are the dominant interactions in determining the transition and we describe the effect of the other interactions with a mean field approximation.
(3) Scattering techniques are also shown to be useful in studying intermicellar interactions, like the Coulomb repulsion between GM1 micelles, in the regime fo the long-range interactions obtainable at very low ionic strength.
(4) Ideal size-exclusion chromatography could be achieved only in a narrow range of the conditions: first, the mobile phase must contain a weak salting-out electrolyte such as NaCl, and second, the mobile phase pH must be high enough that hydrophobic interactions between the solute and support are balanced by their electrostatic repulsion.
(5) A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity.
(6) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
(7) Thinning is initially powered by gravity and capillary forces and will proceed in thin films (less than 100 nm) driven by intermolecular forces until the London-van der Waals attractive forces come to an equilibrium with electrostatic repulsion of similarly charged surfaces of the film.
(8) The compression isotherms of the two tetraether lipids PGC-I and DGC-I were very similar at pH 0, both molecules being uncharged, but at pH 5.6 or 8, PGC-I films were much more expanded than the neutral DGC-I, due to ionization of the phosphate group in PGC-I and the resulting charge-charge repulsion.
(9) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
(10) Calculation of the electrostatic repulsive force using measured charge densities indicates the existence of an attractive force which may be acting over several hundred angstroms.
(11) With larger separations substantial repulsion was obtained.
(12) The atrocities in Paris and Brussels are largely the work of people born and raised in France and Belgium, often from families repulsed by the ideologies of their sons.
(13) The measurements on the air-dried, but still hydrated layer were performed in the attractive imaging mode in which the forces between tip and sample are much smaller than in AFM in the repulsive mode or in scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM).
(14) The method is based on the affinity of a cation-exchange resin for doxorubicin and the repulsion by the same resin of negatively-charged liposomes.
(15) The introduction of a negative charge at position 41 through the replacement of Cys-41 by either aspartate or glutamate reduced the enzymatic activities to very low but measurable levels, suggesting a charge-charge repulsive interaction between these residues and possibly one or both of the phosphates of NAD.
(16) The agreement is not convincing for the sedimentation equilibrium at low ionic strength, because here the experimental DNA concentration is too high for the truncated dilute solution expansion of the DNA-salt repulsion.
(17) I never felt that way, and certainly the idea of putting anything foreign in my body was especially repulsive.
(18) While some politicians have sought to condemn the intolerance, such as President Joachim Gauck, who called the arson attacks “repulsive”, and warned that xenophobic attitudes had “hardened”, others, such as Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union party, have been accused of helping to fuel anti-foreigner feeling with repeated references to “en masse asylum abuse”.
(19) Foreigners thinking of visiting India – particularly young women – will find these views not only repulsive, but dangerous.
(20) The repulsive effect toward neurons can be neutralized by one of the monoclonal antibodies, but not by the other.