Averse

//əˈvɜː(ɹ)s//

"Averse" in a Sentence (11 examples)

He believed the superstition that Christians were averse to learning.

I'm not averse to a good night out.

I'm not averse to meeting Tom.

I am constitutionally averse to getting carried away with feelings.

In fact, almost every kind of winter sport was to be indulged in, with the exception of skating, for the king was averse to that amusement, and never included it in his entertainments.

To say that a cat is instinctively averse to water means that it is the cat's natural reaction towards it.

“I assure you, cousin,” replied the old gentleman, “that the Baron, notwithstanding his unpleasant manner, […] is not, after all, so bad as you make him out to be; and further, I should like to know why you are so averse to him.”

This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing.

The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.

[…] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon descents from France and Normandy.

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The inconveniences aversing from clandestine marriages are pointedly depicted in the last two lines, teaching lessons of morality to all romantic babies.

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