"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
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
1. sadistic tendency = sadystyczna skłonność sadistic tendency
  • The two main characters go through a series of humiliating acts conducted by a guard and a captain who seems to have strong sadistic tendencies.
  • Their violent, sadistic tendencies, rooted in childhood trauma, are demonstrated throughout their lives.
  • Uday's increasingly violent, sadistic tendencies are displayed when he kidnaps a 14-year-old school girl and forces her to escort him to a party.
  • Often wears a cap and has sadistic tendencies.
  • She had read nothing in the tapes to suggest that Starrex had sadistic or perverted tendencies.
  • Whatever had initially motivated the mess officer (and it could have been, in fairness, an innocent ploy), sadistic tendencies soon revealed themselves.
  • Late broccoli in a hot sauce with overt sadistic tendencies.
  • A police officer was reported as saying, "Only a sick person could do something like this, a sick person with sadistic tendencies."
  • Both characters display sadistic tendencies, in that they are equally likely to take pleasure in tormenting each other.
  • And he attributes to him manipulative, sadistic tendencies that led him to play off friends, and particularly women, against one another.
2. masochistic tendency = masochistyczna skłonność masochistic tendency
(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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