verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of dislike.
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adjective.
regarded with aversion
Word Usage
"Imagine this lead sentence in a news story on Nov. 7, 2012: "Barack Obama enters his second term disliked by the majority of voters, distrusted by his Democratic colleagues in Congress and facing a budget catastrophe with few painless solutions.""