Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A definite liking; a strong inclination. synonym: predilection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Strong inclination; decided taste; liking; bias.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Card Playing) A game like bézique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together.
- noun Inclination; decided taste; bias.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
taste ,liking , orinclination (for)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong liking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
-
His penchant is for the gargantuan – auto companies, school violence, capitalism, health care.
-
His penchant is for the gargantuan – auto companies, school violence, capitalism, health care.
-
That agents of the state of Israel are behind much if not all of the "Hamas rockets" is a reasonable conclusion and backed up by the Israeli governments long term penchant for fabricating Muslim terrorism.
-
And he fears updating the Copyright Act will blow up because of the Tory's short-term penchant for slogans and electioneering.
-
The cable is embarrassing for Mr. King, whose r ole in setting the country ' s interest rate is supposed to be apolitical and has fed into mounting criticism of the central banker for what has been described as his penchant for exerting political pressure.
-
FAIR called his penchant for attacking Muslim countries "an O'Reilly trademark", and "his disregard for Muslim civilians is matched by the anti-Muslim sentiments he frequently expresses on both his nationally syndicated radio show, the Radio Factor," reaching 3.5 million listeners, and his top-rated FNC show.
-
FAIR called his penchant for attacking Muslim countries "an O'Reilly trademark", and "his disregard for Muslim civilians is matched by the anti-Muslim sentiments he frequently expresses on both his nationally syndicated radio show, the Radio Factor," reaching 3.5 million listeners, and his top-rated FNC show.
Printing: Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism
-
And might this be related to what others have termed our penchant for reliance on 'basic-level categories.'
-
We're up here knocking about a little, partly to hunt, but mostly because I've a penchant, that is, a weakness for exploring out-of-the-way places.
-
Karamargin, a spokesman for Ms. Giffords, called her penchant for frugality.
arby commented on the word penchant
1672, from Fr. penchant, properly the prp. of O.Fr. pencher "to incline," from V.L. *pendicare, a frequentative formed from L. pendere "to hang" (see pendant).
October 18, 2007
grandpa27 commented on the word penchant
penchant has been misspelled at least three ways - pencient, penchent and penchint. Your speller did not pick up any misspellings. However, in my comment the second 2 were corrected and it took me sometime to have the misspelled words printed.
November 9, 2013