The early piano lessons, which the parents hoped would spur their child's interest in music, may lead to a lifelong aversion instead.

The experience, combined with other experiences of his youth, gave him a lifelong aversion to borrowing money and to debt of any kind.

His years in prison had left him with a skilful technique hi rolling cigarettes thinner than matchsticks, a mania about being followed and a lifelong aversion to porridge.

Despite his father's lifelong aversion to alcohol, Romer became an alcoholic as was a brother of Zane's; (Ellsworth Grey.)

That setback was Wellesley's only military defeat and it gave him a lifelong aversion to night actions.

Possibly because his father had been a great opera singer, he professed a lifelong aversion to the genre.

Wright's reasons for under-reinforcing the structure aren't clear, but seem related to his lifelong aversion to being told what to do.

Getting up in the dark each morning to hitch up the mare and drive the ten miles to school has given me a lifelong aversion to arising in the dark.

Despite her claustrophobia (being in the back of ambulances will be hard) and a lifelong aversion to illness and doctors, Jane signs up.

A lover of the landscape, he had a lifelong and violent aversion to one form of advertising: the billboard.