"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tendency sustantivo

tendency + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
tendency makes • tendency leads • tendency causes • tendency exists • tendency seems • ...
verbo + tendency
Kolokacji: 9
show a tendency • display tendencies • exhibit tendencies • represent tendencies • tendency is seen • ...
adjetivo + tendency
Kolokacji: 127
natural tendency • strong tendency • suicidal tendency • general tendency • violent tendency • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(2) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(8) unfortunate, regrettable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) homosexual, lesbian
Kolokacji: 2
(16) marked, pronounced
Kolokacji: 2
(18) genetic, familial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) disturbing, distressing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) nationalist, nationalistic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) alarming, nasty, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 3
1. annoying tendency = denerwując skłonność annoying tendency
2. centrifugal tendency = odśrodkowa skłonność centrifugal tendency
3. irritating tendency = drażniąc skłonność irritating tendency
  • But the researchers also reported 'an irritating tendency for some Ugandan subjects not to answer questions directly.
  • The intermarriage with the Dais has altered certain of the more irritating Arendish tendencies.
  • To make matters worse, she displays an irritating tendency to read O'Keeffe's entire life as a feminist text.
  • Engrossed in his task, and avoiding Norma (with her irritating tendency to point out his errors), he stared at his calculations.
  • A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls.
  • Mr. de Botton also displays an irritating tendency in this book to deliver common-sense statements with an oracular and self-congratulatory air.
  • The kayak, while lighter than the canoe, had an irritating tendency to swerve into the mangroves when the passage got twisty.
  • You know, the type that's not really special, too shy, and with that irritating tendency of thinking too much?
  • He also has an irritating tendency to put some sort of facile exodus nonsense in his films.
  • He also had an irritating tendency to make simple things difficult.
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) fascist, Communist
Kolokacji: 2
(30) latent, unhealthy
Kolokacji: 2
(31) inevitable, fatal
Kolokacji: 2
(34) overwhelming, high
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...

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