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Example sentences for: averse

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If only Klein weren't so categorically averse to American health culture, he might allow that a little self-imposed Puritanism now and then--a little punishing exercise here, a little culinary deprivation there--can be a sensual pleasure too, albeit of a different sort.
Smith described it as "kicking the tires of my faith," and added that he considers both God and Jesus "friends" who would not be averse to having fun poked at them--especially when that fun is grounded in a fervent respect for their existence and power.
Companies averse to firing employees are, in a sluggish economy, reluctant to hire too.
However, Washington, buoyed by the "spirit of American capitalism," tends to be averse to increased global regulation.
Grès or Madeleine Vionnet, for instance--two neoclassic and erotic designers not at all averse to using bodily exposure--and then fantasticated a few notches further.