penchant
a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
Origin of penchant
1Words Nearby penchant
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use penchant in a sentence
Douek said that while she can only speculate as to YouTube’s motives, she suspects that its penchant for avoiding headlines is at least partly intentional.
‘YouTube magic dust’: How America’s second-largest social platform ducks controversies | Will Oremus | August 25, 2021 | Washington PostDelaney, a 39-year-old IT consultant, already had a penchant for activism.
What went so wrong with covid in India? Everything. | Sonia Faleiro | July 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewUnless you’re a legal expert or have a penchant for nosing through dense legal documents, across not just the EEOC but other relevant regulatory bodies, things can start to get easily tangled.
‘It gets really tricky’: With vaccine mandates, incentives now legal, here’s what it means for employers | Jessica Davies | June 4, 2021 | DigidayHe was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in 2015, where he struggled early but found his game — and his penchant for 3-point shooting.
Dallas Needed A Spark Off The Bench. Tim Hardaway Jr. Has Been A Whole Generator. | Dorothy J. Gentry | May 28, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThey have a penchant for travel far greater than their heterosexual counterparts.
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.
Bid on CIA’s Osama Action Figure, Lewinsky's Lingerie, and More at This L.A. Auction House | Asawin Suebsaeng | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTReality-show deal aside, Weeks has a penchant for talking about her poverty.
Duke Porn Star Belle Knox Is Building Her Brand One Strip Club at a Time | Emily Shire | May 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLet this be a warning for rich men who have a penchant for younger women—they can be quite jealous.
Alleged Murderer Shot Her Millionaire Ex and Escaped in Gold Hummer | Barbie Latza Nadeau | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUnlike his falsetto and his "cool dad" penchant for fedoras, this rumored affair is just so not cute.
Marry, Screw, Kill: Lindsay Lohan Sex List Scandal Edition | Amy Zimmerman | March 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf refined tastes, including a penchant for blue china, being a thriving bachelor, he was able to gratify them.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowExcellent company; a frequenter of the home of Mme. de la Baudraye, where he satisfied his penchant for gaming.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheThese higher flights from Tootles always moved Pansy, who had a penchant for refined romance.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonMy 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.
The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for penchant
/ (ˈpɒŋʃɒŋ) /
a strong inclination or liking; bent or taste
Origin of penchant
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with penchant
see have a penchant for.
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Browse