pet aversion
Example Sentences
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My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scotland was always for Johnson a pet target that he waggishly exploited as a pet aversion; it produced endless gibes on tour as well as at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Merton, Marjorie's pet aversion, had stalked into the great room.
From Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore by Lester, Pauline
Many of us have some pet aversion, which goes far to make us cowards in one direction, even if in other conditions and situations we are brave.
From Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 by Various
As Hunt well knew, her pet aversion was people who lugged mispronounced French phrases into their conversation under the impression that they imparted a piquant and graceful effect.
From Potts's Painless Cure 1898 by Bellamy, Edward
