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wont

/wawnt, wohnt, wuhnt/US // wɔnt, woʊnt, wʌnt //UK // (wəʊnt) //

故意的,故意,故意为之

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : accustomed; used: He was wont to rise at dawn.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : custom; habit; practice: It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wont, wont or wont·ed, wont·ing.

    • : to accustom, as to a thing: That summer wonted me to a lifetime of early rising.
    • : to render customary or usual.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wont, wont or wont·ed, wont·ing.

    • : to be wont.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Forgive my candor, though such is my wont, but much like that moose on a spit, Bernie is dead.

  • The U.K. tabloids, as is their wont, have branded her “shameless,” “sordid,” and “the scourge of society.”

  • It has been, as contestants on TV talent shows are wont to say, a “journey.”

  • Allen responded with his own op-ed in the Times, and the media, as is their wont, proceeded to pick sides.

  • As celebrities on the movie promotion circuit are wont to do, Cameron Diaz is hawking her latest cause celebre.

  • In discussing Duns Scotus, I have given less from his writings than has been my wont with other philosophers.

  • Later on, I believe, a child is wont to have his favourite colour, and to be ready to defend it against the preferences of others.

  • He had been wont to do this on other occasions, because the enemy with nine ships was within sight of the fort.

  • In cases in which no attempt is made to ignore the accusation, the small wits are wont to be busy discovering exculpations.

  • Yet the feeling is in most children weak and vacillating, and is wont to be mixed with other and less noble ones.