Disliking

Examples

• You have no just reason for disliking me; therefore keep the expression of your aversion to yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had a small flower-garden, for which she had rather an affection; but beyond this no other like or disliking. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But I feel this, Helen; I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I don't mean that it's of any consequence, said Sir James, disliking that Mrs. Cadwallader should understand too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And though she hung back, disliking the condition, yet she knew she would go on. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And in return for an acknowledgment, which must give me some pain, you cannot deny me the privilege of disliking him as much as ever. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Typist: Norton