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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
/ ˈpɒŋʃɒŋ /
noun
- a strong inclination or liking; bent or taste
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Word History and Origins
Origin of penchant1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of penchant1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
This penchant for medical internationalism goes back to the greatest icon of the revolution, Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
The CIA has a penchant for such hilarious and sometimes depraved schemes.
Reality-show deal aside, Weeks has a penchant for talking about her poverty.
Let this be a warning for rich men who have a penchant for younger women—they can be quite jealous.
Unlike his falsetto and his "cool dad" penchant for fedoras, this rumored affair is just so not cute.
Of refined tastes, including a penchant for blue china, being a thriving bachelor, he was able to gratify them.
Excellent company; a frequenter of the home of Mme. de la Baudraye, where he satisfied his penchant for gaming.
These higher flights from Tootles always moved Pansy, who had a penchant for refined romance.
My landlord had a great penchant, like other Frenchmen of that day, for conversing on the subject of duelling.
Ling Chu on the contrary had a penchant for buses and seemed to enjoy them.
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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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