Sentence examples for avoidant from inspiring English sources
"avoidant" is a word that is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone who tends to distance themselves or avoids certain experiences or situations. Example sentence: "John tends to be an avoidant person, always opting out of social gatherings."
noun
A person who exhibits avoidance.
He has what he calls "an avoidant personality", by which he means that he's "very good at avoiding anything that might feel stressful".
Although avoidant personality disorder often appears in childhood or adolescence (first as shyness), it tends to diminish somewhat in adulthood.
According to work by Pascal Vrticka, of the University of Geneva, people with what scientists call "avoidant attachment patterns" show less activation in the reward areas of the brain during social interaction.
And though she said, after a followup, that she was "moving on" from thoughts of the Presidency, she also used the slightly avoidant "no intention or any idea even of running again".
Children who were abused as infants tend to show much more avoidant, resistant, and noncompliant behaviour than do other children.
Those persistent symptoms include intrusive thoughts, avoidant behaviors, mood swings, emotional numbness and reckless behavior.
Mr. McNairy is the creative director of J. Press, which has been outfitting fight-avoidant gentlemen since 1902, and his shoes are some of this store's highlights.
"Leave It to Niecy," which just completed its first season on TLC, could safely be described as fun-avoidant, one of a handful of recent reality shows documenting the lives of midlevel black celebrities that hew to middle-class ideals of family, stability and calm.
The only catch was my dairy-avoidant husband, also a meatloaf fan to the catapulting degree, who could not tolerate the Parmesan.
"It is fair to say that in part the rise in peanut allergy can be explained by the fact that we have become peanut-avoidant as far as babies and young children are concerned," he told the Guardian.
It marked the completion of an intriguing transformation that has taken place over several years: of the socialist who was once derided as a soft, conflict-avoidant, blancmange-like "marshmallow" into a self-styled "chief of war".
