"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Grunt, alas, had a distracting and distressing tendency to mentally undress her, and worse.
- As if the poor dear didn't have enough problems with her looks, her complexion had a distressing tendency to erupt into spots.
- Besides, those tapes had a distressing tendency to break or snarl.
- This meant in practice that as development issues arose, the Companies had a distressing tendency to blame each other for the problem rather than try to resolve it.
- Given these evil credentials, her fondness for boxed wine and her distressing tendency to discuss her nail fungus generally pass without comment.
- That's because your ideas have a distressing tendency to revolve around violence, murder, and bloody mayhem, and stealing anything that isn't actually nailed down.
- Except for the last, these works show Massenet's distressing tendency to undertake ungainly mythic or historical subjects that did not match his innocently melodic style.
- Picard, disturbed by the encounter with Data, confesses to Riker a "distressing tendency toward bigotry"28 in the case.
- Ordinary people don't go into the Sangreal anymore, or if they do, they have a distressing tendency not to come out again.
- Not the least of these was MenoHy's distressing tendency toward tone-making.
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