/ dɪsˈteɪst; NAmE / noun
[ U , sing. ] distaste (for sb/sth) a feeling that sb/sth is unpleasant or offensive :
He looked around the filthy room in distaste.
a distaste for politics of any sort
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: from dis- (expressing reversal) + taste , on the pattern of early modern French desgout , Italian disgusto . Compare with disgust .