aversion

How To Use aversion In A Sentence

• Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
• When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
• At that time, I being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid presbyterian, and confined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that in time I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees received an aversion for the good books, she daily recommended to my perusal. The Adventures of Roderick Random
• We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity. Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point
• josh on September 23rd, 2008 @ 11:59 pm our acceptingness of a lack of extraversion prevents neuroticism? Seattle Freeze Documented by Wall Street Journal | Seattle Metblogs
• The people are feeling so terrified that they are moving into shells and developing a typical aversion towards any kind of agitational path or protest movements. Archive 2006-06-01
• This impression was often based on an aversion to the strong odour of the camels rather than the cameleers themselves.
• You should not tell your client to expect that they will automatically experience an aversion response to the imagery of drinking.
• My lifetime aversion to raisins, sultanas and currants meant mince pies were out and the Christmas pudding, burning with blue flames after being doused in brandy, was nothing more than an interesting spectacle.
• Europeans often have difficulty in overcoming their initial aversion to this smell.