Distaste vs Malice - What's the difference?
distaste | malice | Related terms |
A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
(obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
(obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
* Francis Bacon
Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
* Milton
(obsolete) To dislike.
* , Scene 2.
* , II.4.1.i:
to be distasteful; to taste bad
* , Scene 3.
(obsolete) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
* Sir J. Davies
(obsolete) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
Distaste is a related term of malice.
As nouns the difference between distaste and malice
is that distaste is a feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy while malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.As a verb distaste
is (obsolete|transitive) to dislike.distaste
English
Noun
(-)- (Francis Bacon)
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes , and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste .
Derived terms
* distastefulVerb
(distast)- Although my will distaste what it elected
- the Romans distasted them so much, that they were often banished out of their city, as Pliny and Celsus relate, for 600 yeers not admitted.
- Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste ,
- He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
- (Drayton)
References
*Anagrams
* ----malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
