distastedis‧taste /dɪsˈteɪst/ noun [uncountable] 
- Gina moved away from me with a look of distaste on her face.
- Oliver looked with distaste at my clothes.
- He had a distaste for violence, but in his business it was a necessity.
- He held out his arms to Ion, who stepped back in cold distaste.
- He looked with distaste at the rotting timbers above them.
- I felt my mouth set in distaste.
- I stood behind him, trying to conceal my fear and distaste.
- Sensing an improvement of story, Kent agreed even though nothing of distaste was uncovered.
- She suspected that his distaste for students was stimulated not so much by their ideas as by their youth.
- She was shuddering in distaste when Travis came in carrying an armful of kindling, which he tossed down by the fire.
a feeling of not liking someone or something► dislike a feeling of not liking someone or something: dislike for/of: · She could not hide her personal dislike of the man.· Churchill was said to have a dislike for unnecessary formality.intense dislike (=very strong dislike): · My intense dislike for him seemed to grow day by day.
► distaste a feeling of dislike that you have for someone or something because you think they are very unpleasant or offensive: · Oliver looked with distaste at my clothes.· Gina moved away from me with a look of distaste on her face.
► aversion a strong, sometimes unreasonable, dislike of something: have an aversion to something: · Most people have a natural aversion to anything associated with death or dying.
VERB► look· He looked with distaste at the rotting timbers above them.· Kathy looked at him with distaste.· She looked at them with distaste in their sensible shoes and thick bandage.
nountastedistastetastefulnesstastertastingadjectivetasteful ≠ tastelessdistastefultastyadverbtastefullydistastefullyverbtaste
her distaste for any form of compromise