Thesaurus / aversion
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
C——'s aversion to undertake anything where he was not entirely his own master was unconquerable.
FIVE YEARS IN NEW ZEALANDROBERT B. BOOTH
If he had not secretly known that aversion, he would not have been able to destroy the globe and the treasures piled about it.
STAR BORNANDRE NORTON
Julia, dear girl, tells me you have as much of an aversion to parties as Charles and I have.
NARCISSUSEVELYN SCOTT
By degrees they excited a dislike in Master Robert, that in time was fixed into habit, and fell little short of aversion.
THE OLD ENGLISH BARONCLARA REEVE
He took an aversion to that lady, and would have her put to death.
For the first time in her life, she felt an aversion to him.
THE MARK OF CAINCAROLYN WELLS
For once, Zack had not exaggerated in saying that his aversion to employment in a counting-house amounted to absolute horror.
HIDE AND SEEKWILKIE COLLINS
Dorothy felt an aversion to Storri, and she could not have told you why.
THE PRESIDENTALFRED HENRY LEWIS
With whatever solemnity contemplated, it excited on her own account no aversion or inquietude.
ORMOND, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
We went down into the crypt, all of us except Angela, who still has an aversion to underground resorts.
IN CHTEAU LANDANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON
WORDS RELATED TO AVERSION
- abhorrence
- abomination
- anathema
- animosity
- animus
- antagonism
- antipathy
- aversion
- black beast
- bother
- bugbear
- bête noire
- detestation
- disgust
- enmity
- execration
- frost
- grievance
- gripe
- hatred
- horror
- hostility
- ill will
- irritant
- loathing
- malevolence
- malignity
- mislike
- nasty look
- no love lost
- nuisance
- objection
- odium
- pain
- rancor
- rankling
- repellence
- repellency
- repugnance
- repulsion
- resentment
- revenge
- revulsion
- scorn
- spite
- trouble
- venom
- abhorrence
- aggression
- animosity
- animus
- antipathy
- aversion
- bad blood
- bellicoseness
- bellicosity
- belligerency
- bitterness
- combativeness
- contentiousness
- detestation
- disaffection
- enmity
- estrangement
- grudge
- hatred
- hostility
- ill will
- inimicality
- malevolence
- malice
- militance
- militancy
- opposition
- pugnaciousness
- pugnacity
- rancor
- resentment
- spite
- spleen
- truculency
- unfriendliness
- venom
- virulence
- war
- warpath
- abhorrence
- aggression
- animosity
- animus
- antipathy
- aversion
- bad blood
- bellicoseness
- bellicosity
- belligerency
- bitterness
- combativeness
- contentiousness
- detestation
- disaffection
- enmity
- estrangement
- grudge
- hatred
- hostility
- ill will
- inimicality
- malevolence
- malice
- militance
- militancy
- opposition
- pugnaciousness
- pugnacity
- rancor
- resentment
- spite
- spleen
- truculence
- unfriendliness
- venom
- virulence
- war
- warpath
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