aversion
Example Sentences
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“He has such an aversion to being liked,” David Thomson wrote, in a 1983 issue of Film Comment, about Shepard’s screen presence.
Europe’s other military power, there is widespread aversion to conscription, which ended in 1960.
And there was Bernstein, “the big thinker during Watergate,” as Ms. Shepard described him, who had flashes of brilliance even as he frustrated editors with his aversion to deadlines.
From Washington Post
Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey, it follows two best friends who share an aversion to motherhood only for one to fall pregnant.
From New York Times
Perhaps this was the dish that would finally help me shed my aversion to the stuff.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
