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penchant
[ pen-chuhnt; French pahn-shahn ]
noun
- a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something:
a penchant for outdoor sports.
penchant
/ ˈɒŋʃɒŋ /
noun
- a strong inclination or liking; bent or taste
Word History and Origins
Origin of penchant1
Word History and Origins
Origin of penchant1
Idioms and Phrases
see have a penchant for .Example Sentences
Knowles debunks her reputation as a stage mom, though she carried on her matrilineal penchant for designing and sewing clothes, as the stylist for Destiny’s Child.
His attempt to reform the Vatican was marked by both action and a Jesuit penchant for deliberation.
Inevitably, the discussion turned to the wrecking-ball presidency of Donald Trump and his autocratic and, frankly, un-American penchant for siccing the government on his political foes.
The narrator, a reader with siblings and a penchant for run-on sentences, brings a modernist sensibility to the texture of her daily life.
Nauman paid close attention to Duchamp’s penchant for an art of puns and conundrums.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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