animadversion

Example Sentences

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So what is it, exactly, that fuels the animadversion against Martin Amis?

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2020

Later the conference re-elected Bishop Cannon, despite considerable animadversion, to the board of Temperance and Social Service.

From Time Magazine Archive

This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Poppycock," was the virtual animadversion passed by U. S. Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again, a ladder may be used without critical animadversion to bridge a crevasse, but its employment over a rock cleft is tabooed.

From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas