Crossword-Solution: PENCHANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penchant | n. | Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “PENCHANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pigsty + intone = strong tendency | 1 answer |
| Fondness (for) | 1 answer |
| A liking | 1 answer |
| Strong liking | 4 answers |
| Strong tendency | 5 answers |
| Strong inclination. | 5 answers |
| A NATURAL INCLINATION | 10 answers |
| habilitation | 15 answers |
| BODY weakness | 15 answers |
| proneness | 18 answers |
| Proclivity | 28 answers |
| APPETENCE | 30 answers |
| Mettle | 31 answers |
| Predilection | 32 answers |
| Lurch | 33 answers |
| Flair | 40 answers |
| Propensity | 41 answers |
| Appetite | 42 answers |
| Preference | 50 answers |
| Fondness | 51 answers |
| Prejudice | 53 answers |
| Partiality | 53 answers |
| complexion | 54 answers |
| Thirst | 56 answers |
| Outcome | 58 answers |
| Tenor | 63 answers |
| trend | 63 answers |
| Liking | 63 answers |
| Itch | 64 answers |
| Bent | 64 answers |
| Slope | 66 answers |
| Habit | 66 answers |
| Bias | 67 answers |
| Tendency | 73 answers |
| Taste | 75 answers |
| personality | 75 answers |
| Disposi-tion | 80 answers |
| Mood | 81 answers |
| Inclination | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PENCHANT (5)
There are people who have a penchant for cities--more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulse-beats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction.
Naming the boy Hannah (an example of Stacpoole’s penchant for gender reversals), the Lestranges live in familial bliss until they are unexpectedly expelled from their tropical Eden.
Rojas has shown a penchant for girls of the better class." Thorne wiped the perspiration from his pale face and bent a dark gaze out of the window before he resumed his talk.
Stevenson never, any more than his father, ceased to be interested in the religious questions for which Scotland has always had a _penchant_--and so much is this the case that I could wish Professor Sidney Colvin would even yet attempt to show the bearing of certain things in that _Address to the Scottish Clergy_ written when Stevenson was yet but a young man, on all that he afterwards said and did.
His general reticence relative to brother poets is extremely curious when we reflect on his penchant for addressing four-line epics to this or that individual.
Quotes with PENCHANT (3)
History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.
Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks (explaining our penchant for baseball). A cavewoman thinking too hard about what matter is ultimately made of might fail to notice the tiger sneaking up behind and get cleaned right out of the gene pool. Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond t…
The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).