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mislike

[ mis-lahyk ]

verb (used with object)

, Archaic.
, mis·liked, mis·lik·ing.
  1. to dislike.
  2. to displease.


mislike

/ mɪsˈlaɪk /

verb

  1. to dislike
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. dislike or aversion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • misˈliker, noun
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Other Words From

  • mis·liker noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mislike1

before 900; Middle English misliken, Old English mislīcian. See mis- 1, like 2
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Example Sentences

He had a ’ard, cold look and red eyes, and I took a sort of mislike to him, for it seemed as if it was ’im as they was hirritated at.

“I mislike everything about this. If he was going to go to Eldred, he would have done it already.”

I am going to have to trust that he will keep his part of the bargain, but I mislike this kind of calculation.

But we know from Elizabeth’s own letters that she wasn’t taken in by Mary’s image: When her cousin implored her to set aside “jealousy and mislike,” Elizabeth wrote that “we wish … She were as innocent therein as she laboreth greatly to beare both us and the world in hand that she is.”

From Slate

I mislike to carry no word of him; but I know you shall be rejoiced at the news of our victory.

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