Fancy
Tendency
Tendency noun - A habitual attraction to some activity or thing.
Usage example: a youth with a natural tendency toward arts and crafts instead of sports
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- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Jeeves has a tendency to wear out a dictionary, driving Bertie and others to distraction with his long-windedness and fancy words.
Source: Literature / Jeeves and Wooster - It almost always also includes emotional abuse, sometimes includes sexual abuse, and has a very nasty tendency to escalate - a fancy term for getting far, far worse.
Source: Useful Notes / Abuse -
Sherlock is easily bored and has a tendency to be incautious and oft-dangerously short-sighted when in pursuit of a solution to whatever mystery happens to take his fancy.
Source: Sibling Yin-Yang
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