• Synonyms: antipathy, aversion, distaste
  Meaning: a feeling of intense dislike

• It had first given rise to his aversion.
• "Casserole is usually my pet aversion," Dicky said solemnly.
• It was, in fact, his aversion to these articles that Dolly had to encounter.
• Has an aversion from most outdoor sports, but a great esthetic attraction to nature.
• With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.
• I have long known that she has persuaded herself to harbour an aversion for me-Unhappy woman!
• I cannot say, however, that young Vincey showed much aversion to feminine society on this occasion.
• He was a man of forty-one years of age, spare made, with straight hair, and Indian complexion, with the Indian's aversion to Slavery.
• She had called him "Stiva," and he glanced at her with gratitude, and moved to take her hand, but she drew back from him with aversion.
• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics.

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