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
She was a Christian and a Heathen with equal sincerity, a Christian with her overflowing warm-heartedness, with her honest inclination to believe, a Heathen in her averseness to any negation of either life or Nature.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
No other motive but that of the basest and most barbarous revenge could induce men to express an averseness to so humane and necessary a measure.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
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
