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

Even the union of that noble person, who had been considered as his majesty's favourite minister, did not appear to be enough to subdue the averseness.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

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

They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.

From Damon and Delia A Tale by Godwin, William

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