pet aversion
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Much was made of the fact that also in the south of France last week were Lord Baldwin, his original prot�g�, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He seemed to have chosen Bernard for his pet, and Belton for his "pet aversion."
From Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
He has all the contempt of the gentleman for the cad, of the real man for the bundle of petty imitations: and you are his pet aversion.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
