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Meanings of more averse in English

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Usage of more averse in English
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Gen. Grant himself is not more averse to oratory than he.
Famous Americans of Recent Times
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Management and investors, meanwhile, are becoming more averse to risk.
The Guardian
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He grew more and more averse to society each year.
Between Whiles
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Above all, they were proud, and more averse to noisy scenes than women usually are.
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3
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Steinbock, emulating these emasculated but charming men, grew every day more averse to hard work.
Poor Relations
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Undoubtedly, the general temper of nations is more averse from war than it was of old.
The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
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I grow every year more averse to stirring from home, and putting myself out of my way.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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I am not more partial to my arm chair, nor more averse to shaving, than of yore.
Pelham — Volume 08
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You are very justly more averse to Mr. Masters who is a pragmatic fellow, and at best troublesome.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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Companies might also be more averse to taking on debt, said David Spry, research manager at broker FW Holst.
Reuters
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Whether Lee or his lieutenant was the more averse to posing before the crowd it is difficult to say.
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
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But things would be better done if people were more averse to having anything to do with leasehold property.
Friends in Council — First Series
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Investors became more averse to risk and far less tolerant of the lack of up-front profits being delivered by internet stocks.
The Guardian
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The carnage then made among the natives has rendered them more distrustful, and more averse to the inhabitants of the missions.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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No people are more averse to every kind of innovation than seamen, and their prejudices are extremely difficult to be conquered.
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain J...
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He became gradually more and more averse to going out, and to receiving visitors,-moreindifferent, in fact, to all outward things.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 / A Magazin...
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