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Meanings of averse in English
(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.
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Examples for "reluctant"
Examples for "reluctant"
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Public health officials are therefore reluctant to speak about an exit strategy.
2
Negotiators were reluctant to comment, beyond saying the situation was extremely difficult.
3
Therefore, the middle management are very reluctant to report all the cases.
4
Industry officials are usually reluctant to discuss their security arrangements in detail.
5
Foreign investors are also reluctant to pledge funds without faster political reform.
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The political system appears unable or unwilling to respond to the crisis.
2
The result: an arrogance that makes colleagues unwilling to work with you.
3
Albertsons said it was unwilling to change the terms of the agreement.
4
Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid said he was unwilling to reopen negotiations.
5
Ruuqo did not speak for a moment, unwilling to risk Jandru's anger.
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Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
2
William knows he ought to go home, but he's loath to leave.
3
The heart cries out fiercely for its recompense; is loath to wait.
4
Instantly, nothing loath, he found himself in the midst of the fighting.
5
It fights a titanic struggle, for winter is loath to let go.
1
Steel was nothing loth to find himself in the fresh air again.
2
Sinti in public positions are still loth to admit to their ethnicity.
3
No fear of that.' Lionel was loth to put his playmate down.
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But no one was in sight, and he was loth to move.
5
The miners seemed loth to eat, being excited by the gold nuggets.
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I was always interested in chickens, and dosed all the indisposed as:
2
The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened.
3
If the watchman found him again, he'd just say he was indisposed.
4
Write him that I am indisposed, and that will end the matter.
5
The Commission feels indisposed to initiate any movement looking to its suspension.
1
Keep this antipathetic relationship and begin again but now include the action.
2
Nor did the two often meet socially since their natures were antipathetic.
3
As to Costa, I confess that he was always antipathetic to me.
4
Probably it was some family bond that united two such antipathetic natures.
5
Nothing is more antipathetic to me than a coarse and ignorant anglophobia.
1
But with dissimilitudes no conjunction can be effected, because they are antipathetical.
2
To this impressionable man, Parisian badinage-notto call it anything stronger-waspositively antipathetical.
3
But of all Orientals, the most antipathetical companion to an Englishman is, I believe, an East-Indian.
4
He was an antipathetical being, with a peculiar power and gift of treading on everybody's tenderest place.
Usage of averse in English
1
The resulting nuclear crisis sent risk-averse sentiment coursing through global financial markets.
2
But borrowing costs remained elevated given the broader risk-averse sentiment across markets.
3
The election outcome in the euro zone saw some investors turning risk-averse.
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Bonds are seen as relative safe havens when investors become risk averse.
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Perhaps the EU is relaxed and risk-loving, while the UK is risk-averse.
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The sentimentalist is as averse as the Puritan and as the Bacchanalian.
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But it involved some outlay; and to this their aunt was averse.
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As a hard-headed journalist for Time, I considered myself averse to clichés.
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Most cats are averse to being unable to make a quick escape.
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Amos was not at all averse to taking in the parade, himself.
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Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals.
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His nature is aristocratic; his youthful prejudices are averse to hand work.
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He was not averse to cock fighting; he enjoyed a horse race.
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In those days I was not averse to a little life myself.
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The latter has no investor relations to speak of and is disclosure-averse.
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Even smaller airlines were not averse to being acquired by larger airlines.
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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