aversive
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Mr. Bailey offers practical techniques for overcoming the aversive elements of our goals, which are most likely to lead to procrastination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
The most commonly used aversive training methods were moving the dog or shouting at them.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024
As this finding would indicate, many animals, including humans, find the taste of ammonium chloride to be aversive — but as the popularity of salmiak would indicate, that’s not universally the case.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023
This may be due to a "forbidden fruit" effect, which could make potentially aversive material more tempting to viewers.
From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2023
But she only bowed slightly to him, with a sidelong, aversive glance, and walked out of the room with a slow, rigid pace, like one that controls a tendency to giddiness.
From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean
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