distaste for vs distaste of

Both 'distaste for' and 'distaste of' are commonly used in English, but 'distaste for' is more frequently used and considered more idiomatic. Both phrases convey a negative feeling or aversion towards something.

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distaste for

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to express a negative feeling or aversion towards something.

Use 'distaste for' when expressing a dislike or aversion towards something. It is a common and idiomatic phrase.

Examples:

She has a distaste for spicy food.
He expressed his distaste for the new policy.
There is a general distaste for violence in the community.
My friend has a strong distaste for horror movies.
The artist's work was met with distaste for its controversial themes.

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I share father's distrust of banks But not his distaste for speculation.
Let us hope that your distaste for the exercise will not affect your strategic abilities.
Must be somebody who knew what persistent vomiting, sudden distaste for nicotine and itchy feet have in common.
Next time, he fell for a more spiritual woman, who, on their honeymoon in Paris, developed a taste for the material world and a distaste for her new husband.
with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.
A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.
Mr President, nothing I say today will be very popular with the grand alliance of legitimate concerns for the third world, distaste for the single market and economic interests masquerading as high principle which has dominated this debate today.
I have a distaste for hypotheticals just the same as you have a distaste for speculation.
I think only of your distaste for perspiration.
I've developed rather a distaste for being cramped in small spaces.
I'm not talking about irrational distaste for religion.
But if I were you, I'd find an Avenue around your distaste for Mrs. Sibley in order to absorb her manners and ways.
Now, given our mutual distaste for one another,
I have had seven years to observe Charlie's distaste for wasting taxpayers' money on social services.
I too sort of have distaste for the Indians, you know?
Can you just put aside your distaste for my methods for one minute?
Mr President, I want to make clear my distaste for the complete farce that went on over the release of the OLAF report and the reports on Eurostat.
Mr President and Commissioners, I am speaking English not out of distaste for two languages that I like very much - French and Swedish - but because it was the working language of the mission.
Now, I showed this to a physicist friend of mine who has a profound distaste for biology, and he says, "That's easy! The things are a different color!"
My dominus often spoke of his distaste for the man.

Alternatives:

dislike for
aversion to
disgust for
repulsion towards
antipathy for

distaste of

This phrase is also correct and used in English to convey a negative feeling or aversion towards something, but it is less common than 'distaste for'.

While less common, 'distaste of' can still be used to express a dislike or aversion towards something.