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penchant [pon-shon] Noun strong inclination or liking: a stylish woman with a penchant for dark glasses [French]
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penchant noun liking, taste, tendency, turn, leaning, bent, bias, inclination, affinity, disposition, fondness, propensity, predisposition, predilection, proclivity, partiality, proneness |
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| They were going from end to end of the country in all manner of useful missionary capacities; their penchant for wandering, and their experience in it, made them altogether the most effective spreaders of civilization we had. Apparently Mademoiselle Violet combined a taste for philanthropy with her penchant for Islington dancing halls. He ran across a book in the library on the care of the body, and promptly developed a penchant for a cold-water bath every morning, much to the amazement of Jim, and to the bewilderment of Mr. |
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