Crossword-Solution: TENDENCY 8 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
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”

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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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
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.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992
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.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
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.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
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.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

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…
Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love
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.
Megan Karasch
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.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 23 times in crossword archives (1977–2020).