Crossword-Solution: TENDENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tendency | n. | Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “TENDENCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Polling information | 1 answer |
| Natural disposition | 1 answer |
| A group within a larger political party | 1 answer |
| Likeliness | 1 answer |
| An inclination to behave in a particular way | 1 answer |
| Natural inclination | 4 answers |
| Zeitgeist | 4 answers |
| nisus | 9 answers |
| A NATURAL DISPOSITION TO BE HOSTILE | 10 answers |
| A NATURAL DISPOSITION TO FIGHT | 10 answers |
| A NATURAL INCLINATION | 10 answers |
| A CHARACTERISTIC LIKELIHOOD OF OR NATURAL DISPOSITION TOWARD A CERTAIN CONDITION OR CHARACTER OR EFFECT | 11 answers |
| proneness | 18 answers |
| Liability | 30 answers |
| APPETENCE | 30 answers |
| Lurch | 33 answers |
| Penchant | 35 answers |
| Propensity | 41 answers |
| Leaning | 43 answers |
| Grain ___ | 47 answers |
| verisimilitude | 48 answers |
| Groove ___ | 62 answers |
| inner being | 63 answers |
| Tenor | 63 answers |
| trend | 63 answers |
| Bent | 64 answers |
| Bias | 67 answers |
| Drift | 70 answers |
| Cast | 73 answers |
| DIRECTION ___ | 74 answers |
| Predisposition | 74 answers |
| Disposi-tion | 80 answers |
| Inclination | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TENDENCY (5)
The sergeant’s vicious phases being the offspring of impulse, and his virtuous phases of cool meditation, the latter had a modest tendency to be oftener heard of than seen.
This habit of regarding the Fable as a form of the Jest intensified the tendency to connect it with a well-known name as in the case of our Joe Miller.
Strange, too, for one who has kept his calmness throughout the contest, to observe the bloodthirstiness that is developed in the hour of triumph, and to be conscious that he is himself among its objects! There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
There is a tendency to utilise underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilisation; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply.
Another expression sometimes heard is "Complain!", meaning "I have a complaint!" :Anthromorphization: -------------------- Semantically, one rich source of jargon constructions is the hackish tendency to anthropomorphize hardware and software.
Quotes with TENDENCY (3)
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting f…
In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow, rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.
At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1977–2020).