Maya Angelou

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

American Poet

Caitlin Moran

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

British Journalist

Steve Albini

My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.

American Musician

Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Lebanese Poet

Shepard Fairey

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.

American Artist

John C. Maxwell

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

American Clergyman

Graydon Carter

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

American Journalist

Karen Gillan

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

Scottish Actress

Shiva Ayyadurai

I've always had a deep distaste, since 1984, for both Republicans and Democrats.

American Scientist

Harold Brodkey

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

American Author

Distaste often refers to a visceral, emotional reaction, not just a mild dislike.

Emotional Response

Using 'distaste' can be a polite way to express disapproval, softer than 'hate'.

Polite Criticism

'Distaste' is commonly used for things, actions, or ideas, not people.

Not Personal

As a verb, 'distaste' means a stronger form of disliking something, often with revulsion.

Stronger than Dislike

When used as a verb, 'distaste' often precedes actions or habits.

Action-Oriented

The context can change the intensity of 'distaste' from mild to very strong.

Context Dependent

 But I think a lot of what they said was connected in some strange way to this distaste that people still have for the idea of treatment, the notion that somehow if we went out and treated a lot of people in indigent communities, that would be exploitative, because we would be changing them.

Depression, the secret...

 by it, No doubt causing numbness, perhaps a distaste, maybe even pain in its mouth, and therefore the crested rat would survive the encounter. It's pretty amazing. These hairs are pretty special. They do something called piloerection, where they lift the hairs up,