Meanings of as averse in English

The sentimentalist is as averse as the Puritan and as the Bacchanalian.

Not everyone in line was as averse to Trump, however.

My father, although a soldier, was as averse as any man to shedding blood.

RANDAL.-"Would you be as averse to such a notion as Mr. Hazeldean is?"

The top Trump operative is as averse to the limelight as his boss is fond of the cameras.

Mr. Muir is as averse to speaking in public as is Mr. Burroughs, much as he likes to talk.

Mr Trump fuelled those concerns with occasional comments suggesting he may not be as averse as previous presidents to using nuclear weapons.

I had money and would marry his sister by stealth if the fox-hunting squire was still as averse to me as ever.

One of the dangers of scholarship was a peculiar danger in the Cambridge keeping, but Lowell was almost as averse as Longfellow from contempt.

"True gentlemen are equally as averse to such morbidity as the ladies."

"Yes," grunted Pedersen, as averse to talking, evidently, as others on the Lucie.