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Definition

a strong liking or tendency

She has a penchant for peppering her speech with politically incorrect expressions and opinions.

She has a penchant for bursting into song.
Taa also had a penchant for uttering cryptic one-liners about my father, usually after she'd downed a couple of shots of Brugal.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

penchant = tendency (something she often did)

But if I have a penchant, Monsieur Bon-Bon - if I have a penchant, it is for a philosopher.
Poe, Edgar Allan -- Poems
the Irish have a penchant for blarney
Apparently Mademoiselle Violet combined a taste for philanthropy with her penchant for Islington dancing halls.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Malefactor
The senator's penchant for recording his sexual activities gave me the idea to use that as part of the pattern."
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
Enrique blames the boy's father for his aggressiveness and penchant to fight.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
Both my sister and I had strayed far from the way we were dressed as children, my mother having a penchant for the colors of the flag.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
I would be interested in your opinion of the view held by some of our European colleagues, that the penchant for it is a form of insanity.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
"You must have a penchant for disturbing me," the doctor said lividly.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
In any case he had a penchant for civil disobedience on a private level.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
If the police wanted to emphasize her penchant for vicious behaviour, then that report in her file would have been the most damning by far.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
His penchant was for textured synthetic fabrics, often featuring some geometric design like diamonds or pentagons.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
So far, the only blemish on Parker's record while serving the president is a penchant for tardiness, as Crook knows all too well.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
You put on a nice unpretentious facade, and then behind it indulge your priestly penchant for silk.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
It also carried Phoebe Anne Moses of Tiffin, Ohio, a young woman with a penchant for guns and an excellent sense of distance.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
Sort of like the Grim Reaper, but with a penchant for sticking souls on a giant thorn tree... while the people's souls are still in their bodies.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Everyone calls them "the Fatigues"—not just because they have a penchant toward khaki military clothing, but also because they always seem exhausted.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
I won't listen to you—you are so profane!" she said, in a restless state between distress at hearing him and a penchant to hear more.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd

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