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
We have never been able to account for this strange averseness to the consideration of this phase of the matrimonial question, and the determined effort often made to ignore it whenever it is broached.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
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 Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
But the averseness of people to enlarge their field of experience and the wilful misrepresentation of designing persons know no bounds.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
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 Ryerson, Egerton
