6 sentences with 'disliked'
Example sentences and phrases with the word disliked and other words derived from it.
• « Although most of the rulers he had approached in the past disliked and distrusted him, Columbus managed to win Isabella over to his vision, and she paid to equip him with a small fleet (he sent letters of introduction to the Great Khan, who he presumed still ruled Asia). »
• « He fears disapproval: it is astonishing how many intelligent and perceptive people cannot bear the thought of being disliked. So they give up. »
• « The chronicle of Charles II begins with his father, Charles I. Charles I ascended the English throne in 1625 and soon married a French Catholic princess, Henrietta Maria, who was disliked by English Protestants because she openly practised Catholicism during her husband's reign. »
• « Although Jay personally disliked slavery, his mission also required him to seek compensation from the British for the slaves who left with the British at the end of the Revolutionary War. »
• « Accustomed to representative democracy, jury trials and the right of the accused to appear before a judge, Anglo-American settlers in Texas also disliked the Mexican legal system, which provided for an initial hearing by a alcalde, an administrator who often combined the roles of mayor, judge and law enforcement officer. The alcalde would send a written record of the proceedings to a judge in Saltillo, the state capital, who would decide the outcome. »