معنی کلمه penchant

a penchant for criticism that often offended

تمایل به انتقاد که غالبا موجب رنجش می‌شد

it contains 3 meaning:
1. Taste, liking, or inclination (for)
2. card games, uncountable A card game resembling bezique.
3. card games In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
example of a card game:
less of penchant
Those with a penchant for acting on the silver screen need not be disappointed.
کسانی که مایل به بازی روی صفحه نقره ای هستند، نباید ناامید شوند

a liking for, an enjoyment of, or a habit of doing something, especially something that other people might not like:
a penchant for melodrama/skiing/exotic clothes
Her penchant for disappearing for days at a time worries her family.

Editors more commonly targeted a less virile form of competition, women's putative penchant for conspicuous consumption.
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In the 1950s and 1960s the penchant was for models of industrialisation, import substitution and programme to eliminate economic dependency.
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Lacking words was irrelevant given a penchant for decisive action.
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For what they are worth, my penchants are more contradictory.
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His penchant for detail leads him to examine the various approaches from all angles.
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The new observatory provided a perfect opportunity for the exercise of his penchant for spectacular instrumentation.
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Yet, this rigidity was often blended with a buoyant flair and obvious penchant for the dramatic.
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a strong liking for or inclination towards something


She has a penchant for reading in bed and often stays up very late

a penchant for fast cars.

He has a penchant for the game.

My aunt has a penchant for things that are a bit wacky.

You may have developed a strange penchant for interior decorating.

The backpacker did not have a penchant for luxury travel.