Disliked

Examples

• Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You can have no idea how I disliked him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Minerva was obliged to yield, and, of course, disliked her from that day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Well, that is generous, said Mr. Farebrother, compelling himself to approve of the man whom he disliked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Others, who expected to make no great figure, disliked this kind of moral lantern turned on them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Martin, I say, disliked Sunday, because the morning service was long, and the sermon usually little to his taste. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Meyers won on nearly every race but disliked to give tips because it brought down the prices. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She disliked the Grammar School already thoroughly, she wanted to be free. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And, as she was by no means so far superior to her sex as to be above jealousy, she disliked him the more for his adoration of Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• For he never could forget what he had been; and he knew that he had once disliked Gowan for no better reason than that he had come in his way. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Archer understood that he ran the risk of having his mandate withdrawn, and for some obscure reason he disliked the prospect. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Mr. Bulstrode, the banker, seemed to be addressed, but that gentleman disliked coarseness and profanity, and merely bowed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So Athens was disliked and envied by her own empire; her disasters were not felt and shared as disasters by her subject-cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He paused, flushed by his diatribe, and fixing on her a look in which resentment was the ingredient she least disliked. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Do you think he disliked her seeing him at our house? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was not ready to leave because she had disliked me for a long time and she was now cashing in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He liked and disliked pretty nearly the same things that she did. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Lord Steyne also heartily disliked the boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He had disliked Will while he helped him, but he had begun to dislike him still more now that Will had declined his help. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As often as I caught the younger brother's eyes, their expression reminded me that he disliked me deeply, for knowing what I knew from the boy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Because I was poor, and burdensome, and she disliked me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Both Birkin and Gerald disliked him, Gerald ignoring him with some contempt, Birkin exasperated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Much as he disliked him, Maurice could not but feel sorry for the shame and agony felt by the baffled schemer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She disliked him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Add to this, that Mr. Blake disliked all boys, his own included, and you will admit that it could only end in one way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Birkin, when he could get free from the weight of the people present, whom he disliked, danced rapidly and with a real gaiety. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Margaret disliked the prospect of the long walk through these streets, before she came to the fields which she had planned to reach. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Knowing that Lily disliked to be caressed, she had long ago learned to check her demonstrative impulses toward her friend. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typed by Edwina