Synonyms for penchant
ˈpɛn tʃənt; (esp. Brit.)Fr. pɑ̃ˈʃɑ̃pen·chant

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1. penchantnoun

   Synonyms:
   desire

2. penchantnoun

   taste, liking, or inclination (for)

   He has a penchant for fine wine.

   Synonyms:
   desire

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1. preference, penchant, predilection, tastenoun

   a strong liking

   "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

   Synonyms:
   taste perception, predilection, appreciation, taste sensation, druthers, perceptiveness, tasting, gustation, gustatory perception, taste, preference, sense of taste, orientation, discernment, gustatory sensation, gustatory modality, mouthful

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1. • Liking

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1. penchantnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Fr.] inclination, bent, propensity, proneness, proclivity, disposition, tendency, turn, leaning, predisposition, liking, fondness, predilection

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1. List of paraphrases for "penchant":

   fondness, propensity, inclination, tilt, hard-on

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How to use penchant in a sentence?

1. The Crown:

   Someone who has a penchant for recklessness, for escalatory foreign policies, to retain the capability to enrich, I believe would be an incredibly dangerous precedent to set.

2. Jeremy Lim:

   The detail of the restrictions really reflects the penchant of the Singapore policy makers for precision and desire to control every factor possible.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   It's not the first time he's demonstrated a penchant for sexism.

4. Gary Engelhardt:

   It’s only going to be more expensive, the longer you wait, but Americans have a penchant for waiting to do things politically. So I just feel like nothing’s going to happen in the short run.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   I really deplore the tone of his campaign, the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people, and his going after groups of people with hateful, incendiary rhetoric, it's not the first time he's demonstrated a penchant for sexism.