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bent
adjective as in curved
adjective as in determined
noun as in inclination; talent
Example Sentences
Baltimore-based Sinclair, known for its conservative political bent, said it has acquired about 8% of Scripps’ equity by buying some of its publicly traded shares.
Nostalgia, though, is a peril that the author, an art historian at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is bent on warding off.
If the show holds a particular appeal to conservatives, and it does, that aligns with Montana’s political bent, along with the other wide-open spaces in the Western United States that don’t touch the Pacific Ocean.
There are no human characters in “Badlands,” only expendable mechanical representatives of a megacorporation bent on bringing the known universe to heel.
Buildings in the city, designed to withstand earthquakes, bent rather than broke as the ground beneath them rolled.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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