pet aversion
Example Sentences
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My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scotland was always for Johnson a pet target that he waggishly exploited as a pet aversion; it produced endless gibes on tour as well as at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has all the contempt of the gentleman for the cad, of the real man for the bundle of petty imitations: and you are his pet aversion.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Friday is the sailor's pet aversion, as an unlucky day on which to sail or begin work.
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin
"Just one more pet aversion, dear," Bivens smiled.
From The Root of Evil by Dixon, Thomas
