avoider
Example Sentences
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Though I am often an avoider of scary films, Eggers’ impressive command of the medium, his delicately shocking sensibility and his determination to get maximum effect with minimal explicitness has won me over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
"Over time, we hope to see that initiatives that create new habitat support not just urban tolerant species, but also our urban avoider species."
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
If your partner is an avoider, don’t give up trying to connect.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
There was a famous falling out with noted impulse control avoider Alec Baldwin that led to his exit from the Broadway play “Orphans” – and his oddly familiar sounding apology for the fiasco.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2014
But Skald, say now, quickly, --Oft hast thou seen her-- This men avoider.
From Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century by Felix Dahn
