Example sentences for: dislike

How can you use “dislike” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The opponents of mainstream economics dislike people like me not so much for our conclusions as for our style: They want economics to be what it once was, a field that was comfortable for the basically literary intellectual.

  • Parliamentary democracy finally came into its own, albeit with distinctly Japanese characteristics reflecting the dislike of debate and confrontation and the group-oriented preference for maintaining the appearance of harmony at all times.

  • The days when we felt sorry for the famous are over--nowadays, we dislike stars who plead confusion, insecurity, and no common sense.

  • As her brother, John Hannah (Gwyneth Paltrow's love-struck Scottish lapdog in last year's Sliding Doors ) is too stridently the Comic Relief in a movie in which the hero and heroine are already busy comedically relieving themselves, but he's a hard chap to dislike.

  • It spends three paragraphs pondering German history, four describing the intelligent Mr. Hitler's book, and ends with a complaint about his dislike of the Jews, which the reviewer regards as a flaw in an otherwise impressive list of accomplishments.


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