averseness

Example Sentences

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Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2014

I asked irrelevantly, moved by I know not what spirit of averseness.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

There were tones in it which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between ‘Mop’ and the career of a second Paganini.

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas

I thought it became my averseness to this meeting, to name a distant day: but I did not expect they would have complied with it.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel

They are united with the most decided preference for certain opinions and the most earnest averseness to others.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various