disrelish

noun

1. (uncountable)A lack of relish: distaste

   “Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.”

   “The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are told, was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him”

   “The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish.”

   “Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.”

   “[…] that those eyes may glow With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.”

2. (uncountable)Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

   “[T]hey fonldy thinking to allay / Thir appetite with guſt, inſtead of Fruit / Chewd bitter Aſhes, which th'offended taſte / With ſpattering noiſe rejected: oft they aſſayd, / Hunger and thrift conſtraining, drugd as oft, / With hatefulleſt diſreliſh writh'd thir jaws / With ſoot and cinders fill'd [...]”

verb

1. (transitive)To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.

   “September 1, 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished”

2. (transitive)To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

   “And Eve within, due at her hour prepar'd / For dinner favourie fruits, of taſte to pleaſe / True appetite, and not diſreliſh thirſt”