Proclivities

Word PROCLIVITIES
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What do we mean by proclivities?

A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.

A recurring desire that has the adverse effect of preoccupying the neurological biomatter which is representative of your intelligence. desirewantrecurring Urban Dictionary

What turns on one. Urban Dictionary

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The word "proclivities" in example sentences

A man who hides his real personal proclivities is a man you cannot trust to tell you where he really stands on the issues. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was editor of the Standard, a newspaper that had, in years past, been extreme in Southern proclivities, but of late Mr. Holden had advocated North Carolina's withdrawal from the Confederacy, and the making of separate terms with the powers at Washington. ❋ Unknown (1911)

And even though we both have extreme theatrical proclivities in other words, we’re drama queens, in this instance, we just sort of calmly knew. ❋ Jessica Blank (2005)

It is needless to say that his pre-eminent hero was not he of the foot cavalry, but the one of the cotton bales, both being of kindred taste and proclivities, that is, he and Guilford. ❋ Unknown (1906)

By the way, I didn't say his "proclivities" changed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To NOT show your proclivities is the act of a cowering child, or a leftist, who doesn’t want to be held responsible later for taking a stand of any sort. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So who am I to accuse someone else of having the "wrong" kind of proclivities? ❋ Sexgeek (2008)

"proclivities," strong as they were, yielded for a moment to the impulses of my heart, and I said to myself, "Oh, what a good fellow that must be!" ❋ Unknown (1865)

When their old friend Haldore Hanson, a State Department official and longtime China expert—as a foreign correspondent in the 1930s, he had traveled the country by bicycle to cover the civil war—was accused by McCarthy of having “pro-Communist proclivities,” they immediately sent him a note of encouragement. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Well, before I even set foot in Canada, he had identified me as having criminal proclivities because I belong to an identifiable group: conservatives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The same-sex proclivities of various animals is well demonstrated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite the quite liberal proclivities of the Founding Fathers? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think it was Andrew Sullivan who blogged yesterday that what has come to be known as ‘conservatism’ in America is really just the cultural and regional proclivities of the South – add to that since 9/11 – this Bush/Cheney cult of total world military domination – this American “unipolar moment” – “Project for a New American Century” stuff peddled to the public by the likes of the egregious Kristol. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My wife has little interest in horror, or Lovecraft, and so quietly tolerates my proclivities to acquiring musty old books from the early 20th century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe raising the next generation differently will mean men and women's physical proclivities will one day align - or maybe not. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Speaker Boehner and his colleagues, especially those with Tea Party proclivities contend that merely agreeing to raise the debt ceiling is sufficient "sacrifice" to warrant massive spending cuts even as the GOP leadership asserts that the ceiling must be raised. ❋ Richard Klass (2011)

The proclivity to become a [billionaire] has effectivly [allowed] [Bill Gates] to do so. ❋ Miles Gilmour (2004)

He had many [sexual proclivities] that she was [unaware] of. She [left] him. ❋ Signer (2011)

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