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averse
adjective
Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
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The word "averse" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as an adjective meaning "having a strong feeling of dislike or opposition; opposed, hostile." For example, "She was strongly averse to the idea of leaving."
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Although Arsenal's manager ruled out joining the race for Paul Pogba, on the grounds that the Juventus midfielder would be too expensive, he said that signing Mesut Özil and Alexis Sánchez in the past two summers proves that he is not averse to spending money.
You'd imagine that someone so averse to authority might have found this hard, but he has no complaints".The beatings I got, I deserved".
Cameron, however, is ruthless about dropping unpopular policies – which is a polite way of saying he's not averse to making a U-turn at the first sign of popular opposition.
Although he firmly denies reports that he's considered switching to Ukip and says he's happy with his party's position on the Euro-referendum these days, he's not been averse to honouring the memory of his father's flamboyant Euroscepticism.
Many Republicans are still averse to any reprieve for America's 11m illegal immigrants, despite the dreadful showing this stance earned them among Hispanic voters at last year's elections.
However, the euro area is a large currency zone where the euro is well-established as a unit of account, and a central bank which is strongly averse to inflation; therefore, the "flight to quality" may produce opposite effects, namely, strengthening of the euro and price deflation.
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This makes a risk-averse, highly centralised banking system even more risk-averse and conservative.
Ashley is a regular visitor to London's swankiest casinos but is famously publicity-averse.
Related: Indiana pizza joint pranked by Yelp users for backing religious freedom bill "A lot of companies are very risk-averse and at the same time want to be on the right side of history," a tech employee at a major social-media company told the Guardian.
Labour's 'deficit lock' was ignored, except those in austerity-averse Glasgow.
Risk-averse studios will be pondering the degree to which Radcliffe ticks the "guys want to be him, women want to be with him" boxes, usually accepted as prerequisites for A-list stardom among male film actors.
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