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strongly opposed or disliking

Older people tend to be more risk averse in their investments.

Many of our staff are averse to change.
Averse to wasting her time, she went on sewing.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
Dunnan said yes, he would; and Shultz then said, "Do you recall being asked whether or not you were averse to capital punishment?"
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
The more he suffers, the more averse he will be to me, having made me the principal representative of the great occasion of his suffering.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
I told him I was very willing to be easy, and that to carry family concerns before the public was a step from which I was naturally much averse.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
Besides, he was not averse to begin fighting on that Rajah's account, and teach a lesson to those people who had received him with shots.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
All but White Fang was averse to friendship.
Jack London -- White Fang
It was the first time Mrs. Penniman had heard of New Orleans in this connexion; but she was averse to letting Catherine know that she was in the dark.
Henry James -- Washington Square
It is not saying too much: I know what I feel, and how averse are my inclinations to the bare thought of marriage.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
And yet,' Reggie said, from his kiosk, 'you are not averse to running a two-for-one Valentine's Day special on bracelets and assorted rings.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
He was not averse to dying at war in the way Americans were.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
Others, though content that treaties should be made in the mode proposed, are averse to their being the SUPREME laws of the land.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
To function properly, my Whisperer has always needed children, and children are averse to pain — I've found that out through experience.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
Don't you think that to be so much afraid and averse is a sort of dirtiness?"
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
Each turned his eyes to the other side, he first who had been most averse to doing it.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
"And you're averse to work, right?"
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
I know that you are averse to doing the difficult parts of this job, but there are a lot of opportunities here.
Kiera Cass -- The Elite
The mother is a lady of some station, though not averse to increasing her income.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
So Swaney did what any conflict-averse public official would do when faced with two unpleasant options: he passed the buck.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

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