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

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

This lenient treatment of the conspirators was quite characteristic of the later disposition of Nasr-ed-Din Shah, and his averseness to judicial severity.

From Persia Revisited by Gordon, Thomas Edward

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

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 Hardy, Thomas