Proclivity.

His proclivities are all evil. His tendencies or propensities have a wrong bias. The word means downhill tendency. (Latin, proclivis.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Privy Seal
Pro and Con. (Latin)
Pro Tanto
Pro Tempore
Probate of a Will
Probe
Probole
Procès-Verbal
Procession of the Black Breeches
Proclaim on the Housetop
Proclivity
Procris
Procrustes Bed
Procrustean
Prodigal
Prodigy
Profane
Profile
Profound (The)
Prog
Progne or Prokne