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proclivity

/proh-kliv-i-tee/US // proʊˈklɪv ɪ ti //UK // (prəˈklɪvɪtɪ) //

倾向性,倾向于,倾向

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pro·cliv·i·ties.

    • : natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.

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Examples

  • That’s not a function of gerrymandering, that is a function of the number of people there, their partisan proclivities, as opposed to what you are going to see in Ohio, Texas, Georgia, regardless of what voters want.

  • Possibly, although that seems unlikely given the proclivities of all the parties involved.

  • It was overkill for a one-night trip, but I hoped that obsessive preparation could tamp down my proclivity for imagining worst-case scenarios.

  • But however laughable our proclivity for questions, doubt, and endless theorizing, it is just as equally inevitable.

  • When it comes time to write about his proclivity toward violence, I have all of these testimonies, filed in the same place.

  • Nowhere is that proclivity more in evidence than in immigration policy.

  • Two profilers labeled Karr/Reich as a man with a "definite proclivity toward pedophilia."

  • It is asserted that she had had, all her life, an avowed proclivity to suicide.

  • Yet before he took this step he was accused of a proclivity toward extraordinary things.

  • And as we know Don Benigno's proclivity in this direction, the shaft went home with diabolical effect.

  • And there is, in many French poets, a fatal proclivity to fuss just a little too much over their subjects.

  • The frog has a proclivity for squeezing into holes and cracks, or beneath objects on the ground.