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mislike
[ mis-lahyk ]
verb (used with object)
- to dislike.
- to displease.
mislike
/ mɪsˈlaɪk /
verb
- to dislike
noun
- dislike or aversion
Derived Forms
- misˈliker, noun
Other Words From
- mis·liker noun
Word History and Origins
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.”
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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