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

Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense? 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

I asked irrelevantly, moved by I know not what spirit of averseness.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

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 my averseness to solitude I sat down at a table where sat already a little, bald-headed, false-toothed Anglo-Indian, a man who bored me into fits of nervous excitement.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph