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
Adams, Samuel, a pet aversion of the Hartford wits, 99, 100.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
Miss Oleander was a pet aversion of his own, and this bond of union drew him and her saucy little antagonist together at once.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming
Even in those early days, when he was scarcely known, and that favorably rather than otherwise, he had imagined himself the pet aversion of the comfortable classes.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
