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given to doing

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given to doing something
likely to do something; inclined to do something habitually. Mary is given to singing in the shower. Bob is given to shouting when things don't go his way.
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It's not that cooking a meal for four times the usual number is exactly World War Three, but I am not given to doing three-course meals at the best of times - I honestly believe that two is enough - and the idea of getting 24 plates of nosh out of the kitchen in one sitting always makes me wish I had never opened my big mouth.
Joe Zito, a man not given to doing anything halfway, has been the architect of his son's baseball career, there's no question of that.
 
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