Although Penny thought she was well-liked, her classmates spoke of her with animadversion. From LearnThat.org.
Lollards were made the object of much animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Klapka himself does not escape without animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Even Mrs. Thrale did not escape his friendly animadversion at times. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference
The ensuing discourse also is not to be passed without a little animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
This passage, which is in the spirit of the entire tract, is open to grave animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
This animadversion was soon conveyed to Amarilly, who instantly and freely forgave the critic. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
But for the lateness of the session the message would have been the subject of severe animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Towards the year 1300, the ladies 'dress fell under the animadversion of the malevolent writers of that day. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
I put them to mark the places which call for vengeance upon the vixen writer, or which require animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
To animadversion on the President appointing to a post one who had zealously opposed his reelection, he replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
It is a pleasure which must console me for having subjected myself to his just animadversion on another occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
It seems most critics, particularly the unsolicited variety, are incredulous when their animadversion is condemned!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
Building improved, streets were widened, and coaches became so common as to excite much animadversion and complaint. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
Another poem in this intermediate collection was no less subjected to severe animadversion, but with infinitely less justice. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
He too became the target of village gossip and his name was ere long linked with that of the old man in similar animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
But, affecting as my own circumstances are, I cannot pass by, without animadversion, the reflection I need not repeat in words. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
SIR: Perceiving that a pamphlet published in this city has been a subject of animadversion and uneasiness in Virginia as well as in. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
The following passage, in the translation above alluded to, might have passed the public eye without animadversion as the language of. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
All who contributed to his defeat, and all in any way associated with them, have become the subjects of his hatred and his animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Even his comparison of St. Ignatius to Cæsar, and Xavier to Alexander, passed without animadversion; it was tolerated as a flower of rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
French wines were given, and a little raspberry ice would confer wide celebrity on an evening party, and excite much animadversion and surprise. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829] Reference
Government, however, laid itself open to animadversion, by committing Mr. Sayre, an American merchant, to the Tower, on a charge of high-treason. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Sir Timothy had been called to order, but the Speaker had ruled ‘bellicose Irishman’ was not beyond the latitude of parliamentary animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
Trelcatius undoubtedly was the person most open to animadversion; for he adopted a mode of speaking which detracted somewhat from the truth of the matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
Not that either the Parliament of Paris or the provincial parliaments were free of grave defects deserving the severe animadversion of impartial observers. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Thus he put the most unfavourable construction on the principles of his friend, because he found himself justly fallen under the lash of his animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
(May-June 1996); for a powerful animadversion on the first but not the second, see Jerry Fodor's "Deconstructing Dennett's Darwin," in Mind and Language 11, no. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
But Mr. Motley comes in for his share of animadversion in Mr. Davis's letter. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
"I am sure your lordship would make no such animadversion," said Mr. Gilmore. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference
Mr. White, the editor, bestows some animadversion on the superficial account of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6] Reference
He revolved it as a chant: with anon and anon involuntarily a discordant animadversion on Lady Busshe. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
'Then, if you talk of debts,' said Hazel, 'I owe Prim the greatest quantity of wholesome animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
Seconding xsmommy's comment on Obama's aversion to animadversion, on CNN today, he was quoted as saying. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The extent and duration of this spiritual conspiracy seemed to render it everyday more deserving of his animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference
But the gigantic obelisks like that on Bunker Hill, and especially the Washington monument at the national capital, are open to critical animadversion. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Teacups] Reference
He admonished the ecclesiastics and monks not to frequent the houses of widows and virgins; and menaced their disobedience with the animadversion of the civil judge. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference
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