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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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