0 a characteristic way of thinking:
Perhaps it is only people of a malicious turn of mind who believe that his political links protected him from proper scrutiny.
He had almost a poetic turn of mind.
Many of us who have an ingenious turn of mind have used those agents to protect our amateur inventions.
I am one of those with a charitable turn of mind who believes that they did not know.
I now discern that they both have a similar financial turn of mind.
Others of a more negative turn of mind simply squirmed at the idea of so significant an extension of parental choice of school.
That certainly suggests a romantic turn of mind.
An ex-miner, he was very intelligent and well-read, and had a philosophical turn of mind.