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
In Janet’s estimation, the averseness of Graeme to bring herself in contact with strangers, had been a serious defect in her character.
From Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte
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 Thomas Hardy
With all her averseness to speech and her vacuous, fishy stare, the girl had long since learned that Big Lena was both loyal and efficient and shrewd.
From The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
