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mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate &c 898; animosity &c 900;<br />

hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa † , xenophobia.<br />

sickener † ; gall and wormwood &c (unsavory) 395; shuddering, cold sweat.<br />

V. mislike misrelish † , dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have rather not, would rather not,<br />

prefer not to, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for,<br />

take a dislike to, have an aversion to, have an aversion for; have no taste for, have no<br />

stomach for.<br />

shun, avoid &c 623; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to<br />

bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn<br />

up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make<br />

faces.<br />

loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate &c 898; take amiss &c 900; have<br />

enough of &c (be satiated) 869.<br />

wish away, unwish cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick,<br />

render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble † , disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils;<br />

go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run<br />

cold &c (give pain) 830; pall.<br />

Adj. disliking &c v.; averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of<br />

conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick † ; queasy.<br />

disliked &c v.; uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant;<br />

abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful † ; offensive; disgusting &c<br />

v.; disagreeable c.<br />

(painful) 830.<br />

Adv. usque ad nauseam [Lat.].<br />

Int. faugh!, foh! † , ugh!,<br />

Phr. non libet [Lat.].<br />

868. Fastidiousness -- N. fastidiousness &c adj.; nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in<br />

being pleased, friandise [Fr.], epicurism, omnia suspendens naso [Lat.].<br />

epicure, gourmet.<br />

[Excess of delicacy] prudery.<br />

V. be fastidious &c adj.; have a sweet tooth.<br />

mince the matter; turn up one's nose at &c (disdain) 930; look a gift horse in the<br />

mouth, see spots on the sun.<br />

Adj. fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat † , finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting,<br />

strict, anal [Vulg.], difficult, dainty, lickerish † , squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy † ,<br />

queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous;<br />

censorious &c 932; hypercritical; overcritical.<br />

Phr. noli me tangere [Lat.].<br />

869. Satiety -- N. satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment † ,<br />

satiation; weariness &c 841.<br />

spoiled child; enfant gete [Fr.], enfant terrible [Fr.]; too much of a good thing,<br />

toujours perdrix [Fr.]; crambe repetita [Lat.].<br />

V. sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore &c<br />

(weary) 841; tire &c (fatigue) 688; spoil.

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