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wont to

adj. in the habit; "I am used to hitchhiking"; "you'll get used to the idea"; "...was wont to complain that this is a cold world"- Henry David Thoreau [syn: used to(p), wont to(p)]

Usage examples of "wont to".

Naturally I regarded them with some suspicion, as I think anyone would have been wont to do.

She patted her immaculately groomed hair as women are wont to do-then leaned closer.

Thereafter those in the towers and without the walls beheld strange lights on the water, and saw that the gray rock Akurion, which was wont to rear high above it near the shore, was almost submerged.

We rarely trade with them, for the people there are mean of spirit and sometimes prefer to kill for what they want rather than pay for it as many Mai are wont to do.

Tako turned to the right and was pleased to note that the door - as all Arkonide doors are wont to do - opened automatically as soon as he approached to within three feet of it.

As she was wont to do, before going to bed she had opened the windows and turned off the heat, so the room felt like what Gran Susie used to call an icebox.

The father responded the way fathers are wont to do in such situations, which is violently.

Notwithstanding the fact that von Horst knew that these mighty beasts might be highly dangerous, there was ordinarily such a sweet placidity in their appearance and such a suggestion of dependability and intelligence in their great bulk and dignified mien that he was wont to be lulled into a feeling of security in their presence.