0 a liking for, an enjoyment of, or a habit of doing something, especially something that other people might not like: --
1 a liking for or a habit of doing something, esp. something that other people might not like: --
Ives had a penchant for musical experimentation.
Nor, given their penchant for drawing analogies between past and present, do policymakers want to be told that this practice is fundamentally unhistorical.
What are we to make of nature's penchant for engineering multiple representations based on slightly different processing needs?
The arts were atrophying from an overly rationalist penchant for mere realistic description.
An example might be humans' penchant to attribute intentionalities to the world around them, even in circumstances where such agency may be implausible.
At his worst, his penchant for hunting, card playing, and drinking makes him appear "idle, dissipated, and extravagant" (119).
The language is lucid, but the author has a penchant for trying to do too many things in one sentence.
The penchant for undemanding, trivial novels did not have to be satisfied by books alone.
All fathers have a penchant to give something to their daughters.
