propensities

We are animals who have inherited certain propensities not always well-adapted to modern urban life.

Mr. Howard Saunders also says he can bear witness to the egg-eating propensities of the Harriers.

So like all men of susceptible and sentimental propensities, his affection for his first love only lasted until he met the second.

This fable is only one among many others that were narrated with a view to curbing the propensities of blaspheming swearers.

"Papa and myself, having no vagrant propensities, will go to our own church," answered the latter.

Instead, he was rather flashily dressed, in clothes more often affected by men of sporting propensities than youths of any age.