aversion
Example Sentences
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“He has such an aversion to being liked,” David Thomson wrote, in a 1983 issue of Film Comment, about Shepard’s screen presence.
Europe’s other military power, there is widespread aversion to conscription, which ended in 1960.
“There is a very small minority of folks with an aversion to change that want to freeze the city and keep it in the past,” Agarwal said.
From Seattle Times
But the film’s aversion to formal or rhetorical bombast as it discusses scientists’ hopes for a better future is its own balm.
From New York Times
Gone will be the aversion to public events, large and small, likely replaced by traditional campaign stops at diners, factories and union halls with handshakes, selfies, and crowds of people.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
