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n. a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"

n. an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"

adj. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"

atilt, canted, tilted, tipped

adj. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"

prejudice, bias

n. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

taste, preference, predilection, penchant

n. a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

inclination

n. that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking; "her inclination is for classical music"

tendency, propensity, leaning

n. an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"

craving

n. an intense desire for some particular thing

desire

n. the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

fondness, fancy, partiality

n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"

preference, predilection

n. a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

aptitude

n. inherent ability

liking

n. a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"

taste, preference, predilection, penchant

n. a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

proclivity, propensity, leaning

n. a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"

craving

n. an intense desire for some particular thing

desire

n. the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

fondness, fancy, partiality

n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"

awry, wonky, askew, cockeyed, lopsided

adj. turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

reclining, accumbent, decumbent, recumbent, lying down

adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest

bent, bowed, inclined

adj. used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and sloping shoulders"

nodding, cernuous, drooping, pendulous

adj. having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

couchant

adj. lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward

huddled, crouched, crouching, hunkered, hunkered down

adj. squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"

sleeping, dormant

adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

flat, prostrate

adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"

hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked

adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"

kneeling

adj. (unerect)

lolling, lounging

adj. lying in a relaxed manner

prostrate, prone

adj. lying face downward

slouched, slouching, slumped

adj. with shoulders drooping

supine, resupine

adj. lying face upward

sloping, aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped

adj. having an oblique or slanted direction

bevel, cant, beveled, bevelled

adj. having the slant of a bevel: "a bevel edge"; "a cant buttress"

high-pitched

adj. set at a sharp or high angle or slant; "a high-pitched roof"

low-pitched

adj. set at a low angle or slant; "a low-pitched roof"

oblique

adj. slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base"

pitched

adj. set at a slant; "a pitched rather than a flat roof"

disapproval, disfavor, disfavour, dislike

n. an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

antipathy, aversion, distaste

n. a feeling of intense dislike

antipathy, aversion, distaste

n. a feeling of intense dislike

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