penchant
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈpɛnʃənt/
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predilección
- Some leaders are said to have a me-versus-them attitude and a penchant for building their own empires.
Now, Castro had a reputation and a penchant for getting rid of competition.
- Now, Castro had a reputation and a penchant for getting rid of competition.
- I liked to win and that little penchant for perfection just never quite went away.
- It says that he has a penchant for the babies who have not yet stopped drinking from the breast.
- As a child, she found this penchant for roundabout answers frustrating, but in time she realized that the context was the answer.
- He was an insanely fearless pilot who who had a penchant for ramming his enemy's planes in mid air.
- And you mentioned penchant for weightlifting, and you said more than you probably should be doing.
- And I noticed that my penchant for making things diminished when I was going into pool playing.
- Anyway here we go M in bold a kitchen witch with a penchant for baking and literally cursed love life.
- The coach went on to say off the field, he had a talent for raising spirits and had a penchant for imitating his coach, Von said, which is his coach.
Examples
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His penchant for collecting rare stamps led to a vast and valuable collection.
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He has a penchant for flattery.
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You know he has a penchant for projects.
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"Your aunt tells me you have a penchant for things cultural."
Fiction book (2002) -
I liked to win and that little penchant for perfection just never quite went away.
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It's one more way where our penchant for trying to destroy one another has led to a modern day marvel.
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I mean, you and I both have a penchant for spending money on things that we shouldn't.
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Now, Castro had a reputation and a penchant for getting rid of competition.
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Randell began his career as an IT specialist with a penchant for genealogy.
Academic text (2017) -
The academic history of intercultural communication takes its impetus from the American penchant for studying behavior.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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4.1
A person's liking for styles, clothes, or art
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2.1
A stronger liking for one thing than for others
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4.2
A natural tendency to want or choose something
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3.3
A strong liking for something that may be bad for you
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8.5
A natural liking or habit of doing something, often a bad thing
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8.4
A strong liking for something, like a type of food or music
Antonyms
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
Penchant comes from the old French verb pencher meaning 'to lean' and from the older root pendere meaning 'to hang'. So imagine a person leaning toward something; that 'lean' explains the modern meaning: a penchant is a strong liking or a tendency to do something.