Sentence example with the word 'propensity'

propensity

a thing for, bias, diathesis, felicity, individualism, mental set, partiality, proneness, streak, turn

Definition n. an inclination to do something

Last update: July 5, 2015


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The rich have the propensity to spend on costly items.   [noun]

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These projects or aims include: (a) Do genetically distinct strains differ in their propensity to cause colitis or liver abscess?   [noun]

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"He detested children, on account of their propensity to insult and persecute him."   [noun]

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Pontellier and her possible propensity for taking young men seriously was apparently forgotten.   [noun]

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He had a decided propensity for bullying: derived no inconsiderable pleasure from the exercise of petty cruelty; and, consequently, was (it is needless to say) a coward.   [noun]

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Edna often wondered at one propensity which sometimes had inwardly disturbed her without causing any outward show or manifestation on her part.   [noun]

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Fourthly and lastly, Explain that force and vivacity of conception, which arises from the propensity.   [Please select]

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Where reason is lively, and mixes itself with some propensity, it ought to be assented to.   [Please select]

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