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Synonyms:
- gustatory perception, taste, proclivity, disposition, discernment, bone, like, tendency, proneness, habitude, bent, taste perception, affinity, temperament, polarity, direction, druthers, approach, aptitude, orientation, gustatory modality, liking, appreciation, love affair, bond, inclination, sense of taste, affection, leaning, gustatory sensation, trend, bias, devices, impulse, course, gustation, perceptiveness, taste sensation, predilection, propensity, preference, cast, grain, tenor, squint, genius, aptness, tasting, predisposition, partiality, turn, attachment, mouthful
Examples:
- - " What a brute I am," said Dundas aloud; " but the fact is I was talking of your penchant for crime." - "A Woman's Burden", Fergus Hume
- - No, no; just counsel her to patience, and in a few months we shall see which way the wind blows, for, though no word had yet passed between them, Marcus was quite aware of Alwyn Gaythorne's penchant for his old playfellow, though the idea was hardly more pleasing to him than it was to Olivia. - "Doctor Luttrell's First Patient", Rosa Nouchette Carey
- - He remembered- the climb with the dazed Quimby up the snowy road, the plaint of the lovelorn haberdasher, the vagaries of the professor with a penchant for blondes, the mysterious click of the door- latch on the floor above. - "Seven Keys to Baldpate", Earl Derr Biggers
