Adjective : adverse criticism. ,adverse circumstances. ,adverse winds. ,the adverse page. From Dictionary.com.
They are vulnerable to the fear tactics and the adverseness to change that is behind much of the opposition to. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By Clinton And Former Presidents On Nafta] Reference
Back from the mid 70s on, there has been a certain culture of risk - adverseness to some extent in the CIA that was more or less started by the Church-Pike hearings, and I think Porter wants to turn that around. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2004] Reference
If you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged and prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams] Reference
The blame lies instead, ironically, with the extreme risk adverseness of the financial regulatory wimps; who thought their only mission in life was to drive out the risks of default in the financial system; and arrogantly thought themselves capable to do so; and to that effect created minimum bank capital requirements based on risks, as measured by their outsourced risk kommissars, the credit rating agencies. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
"Through plaintiff's varied yet unsuccessful attempts to persuade the county to correct the shortcomings in the bid specifications, plaintiff has demonstrated real adverseness between it and the county. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"The Admiral says in this place that the adverseness of the winds and the high sea were very necessary to him since they freed the crew of their erroneous idea that there would be no favorable sea and winds for their return and thereby they received some relief of mind or were not in so great despair, yet even then some objected, saying that that wind would not last, up to the Sunday following, when they had nothing to answer when they saw the sea so high. From Wordnik.com. [The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503] Reference
(1971), the case would therefore have lacked the requisite adverseness to satisfy the "case or controversy" requirement under Article III of the Constitution-and that Judge Walker would have been obligated to dismiss plaintiffs 'case (rather than proceed to judgment on the merits). From Wordnik.com. [Articles on National Review Online] Reference
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