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The group has an unfortunate predilection for fighting, drinking, and drug use.predilection = preference or tendency
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She has a predilection for sticking her nose into other people's business.
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The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. (source)
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Langdon rolled his eyes at Sophie, well accustomed to Teabing's predilection for dramatic antics. (source)predilection = tendency or preference (a predisposition in favor of something)
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This predilection for minding other people's business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness. (source)predilection = preference
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the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats. (source)predilection = preference or tendency
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He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment. (source)predilection = preference or tendency
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She had the air of a game warden pointing out an animal in the grass. Taking pride in her ability to predict its movements. Her superior knowledge of its habits and predilections. (source)predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
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Obviously the Andromeda Strain showed a predilection for cerebral vasculature. (source)predilection = preference or tendency
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To be right and throw it away in order to please the predilections of his teachers, that would be the monstrosity! (source)predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
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It was a predilection of their genetics. (source)predilection = tendency (a predisposition in favor of something)
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Clyde uttered the names of people dancing past and Edgar commented on their lives and careers and personal predilections.† (source)predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
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...her predilection for a special window at which she always sat in the early evening, (source)predilection = preference or tendency
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But without warning, a long way into the woods, he began to berate her with humiliating invective and revolting remarks about her morals and sexual predilections.† (source)predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
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Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. (source)predilection = preference or tendency
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He laid out all of Seabiscuit's predilections and weaknesses in great detail.† (source)predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
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