Sample Sentences foraverse (editor-reviewed)
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Older people tend to be more risk averse in their investments.
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Many of our staff are averse to change.
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It is not saying too much: I know what I feel, and how averse are my inclinations to the bare thought of marriage. (source)averse = strongly opposed
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She was artistic, unpredictable, impulsive, and rule-averse—all qualities I dearly admired.† (source)
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He was not averse to doing this in the middle of the city square.† (source)
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He was not averse to dying at war in the way Americans were.† (source)
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I was averse to visitors.† (source)
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A composite feeling, made up of disgust with the, to him, humdrum tediousness of a farmer's life, gloomy images of her who lay in the churchyard, remorse, and a general averseness to his wife's society, impelled him to seek a home in any place on earth save Weatherbury.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I know that you are averse to doing the difficult parts of this job, but there are a lot of opportunities here.† (source)
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Though I wasn't averse to the idea of marriage, it seemed kind of silly to hope for that as your life's goal.† (source)
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How she had organized for Velutha to be educated and given him a job ...Mammachi, though annoyed at his drunkenness, wasn't averse to listening to bardic stories about herself and her family's Christian munificence.† (source)
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They liked to say that they didn't care for sweets, although there was some evidence that they weren't as averse as they claimed.† (source)
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The act of procreation would be undergone unseen, prudently veiled in white cotton — she, dutiful but properly averse, he within his rights — but need never be mentioned.† (source)
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To function properly, my Whisperer has always needed children, and children are averse to pain — I've found that out through experience.† (source)
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There are plenty of sturdy Union patriots who are not averse to picking up money selling goods to the Confederacy.† (source)
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A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and her feelings were alike averse to it.† (source)
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