(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.
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 .
4 Bonds are seen as relative safe havens when investors become risk averse .
5 Perhaps the EU is relaxed and risk-loving, while the UK is risk - averse .
6 The sentimentalist is as averse as the Puritan and as the Bacchanalian.
7 But it involved some outlay; and to this their aunt was averse .
8 As a hard-headed journalist for Time, I considered myself averse to clichés.
9 Most cats are averse to being unable to make a quick escape.
10 Amos was not at all averse to taking in the parade, himself.
11 Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals.
12 His nature is aristocratic; his youthful prejudices are averse to hand work.
13 He was not averse to cock fighting; he enjoyed a horse race.
14 In those days I was not averse to a little life myself.
15 The latter has no investor relations to speak of and is disclosure - averse .
16 Even smaller airlines were not averse to being acquired by larger airlines.
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