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DISLIKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regarded with aversion
Example:
he was intensely disliked
Classified under:
Similar:
dislikable (such as to provoke dislike)
unlikable; unlikeable (difficult or impossible to like)
Antonym:
liked (found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dislike
Context examples:
He disliked and distrusted the sex, but he was always a chivalrous opponent.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He soon perceived that I disliked the subject; but not guessing the real cause, he attributed my feelings to modesty, and changed the subject from my improvement, to the science itself, with a desire, as I evidently saw, of drawing me out.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I had therefore nothing in the world to do, but to fancy myself in love; and as my mother did not make my home in every respect comfortable, as I had no friend, no companion in my brother, and disliked new acquaintance, it was not unnatural for me to be very often at Longstaple, where I always felt myself at home, and was always sure of a welcome; and accordingly I spent the greatest part of my time there from eighteen to nineteen: Lucy appeared everything that was amiable and obliging.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Cousin, said she, something is going to happen which I do not like at all; and though you have often persuaded me into being reconciled to things that I disliked at first, you will not be able to do it now.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There was an offensive tone in it, perhaps, and yet in the main it struck me as mere riotous outcry, the noisy reception of one who amused and interested them, rather than of one they disliked or despised.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Because I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In the past he had liked comfort and surcease from pain, disliked discomfort and pain, and he had adjusted his actions accordingly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Much as Peggotty would have disliked such a service, I believe she would have retained it, for my sake, in preference to the best upon earth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
