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penchant
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 taste, liking, or inclination (for) 2 (cx card games uncountable English) A card game resembling bezique. 3 (cx card games English) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A hip-hop beat, more tattoos than a biker bar, and a penchant to take every shot. ▪ He carried his penchant for secrecy to great lengths. ▪ His friendship with Fujimori gives him unusual access to a president with a tiny circle ...
Usage examples of penchant.
Palmaris, as was his love of the wineelvish boggle, some saidhis penchant for games of chanceamong friends onlyand his love of officiating a grand wedding where no expenses had been spared.
The zombies had shown a penchant for gouging the eyes from their victims.
Did Ilima have a penchant for putting really ugly tikis in the beds of women her hound of a man lusted after?
In the old days, before Ysanne Isard had summoned him to Imperial Center and pointed out his penchant for making unwarranted assumptions, he would have assumed he could not be fooled again.
Carlos, who had always had a penchant for German militaria, imported forty German bodyguards, complete with automatic weapons and Doberman pinschers.
Diva Rosaline, a dark-haired goddess with a bad temper and a penchant for too much rouge, entered the top of the greeting area stairs.
Given his penchant for gross overspending, his loyalty could all too easily be bought by an enemy, and Mara dared not leave such a threat unattended on her southern border.
Klinzhaii exception appears to have derived from interaction with alien races where such communication phrases are essential to avoiding conflict where it is actually unbeneficial to the nature of the situation, despite the Klingon penchant for either starting or finishing such conflicts!
Angels began in Berdoo with the dragster set, but he was never their public relations man -- only a noisy contact, a phone number and an unhired hustler with a penchant for bugging the press.
He was a happy, easygoing, reasonably athletic boy, with a serious penchant for 1 his studies which also pleased his mother.
Cursing the aged crone who had a penchant for laudanum and a tongue clove in twain like most mean old serpents, he staggered to the door to let her in for a morning teaspoon of pain relief.
I am afraid that the patrons you attract are not the sort to air their penchants in public.
His taste was for country life and country sports, and men like Queensberry with their penchant for evil offended him, when he bothered to notice.
Faerie, surely one of the most charming has to be Sneezlewort Rootmuster Rowanberry Boggs the Seventh, a hawthorn root faery with a heart as large as the sky and an unfortunate penchant for getting into trouble.
Of all the denizens of Faerie, surely one of the most charming has to be Sneezlewort Rootmuster Rowanberry Boggs the Seventh, a hawthorn root faery with a heart as large as the sky and an unfortunate penchant for getting into trouble.