English-Italian translations for bent

• estro
• fissato
• ispirazione
• piegato
  Sono delusa dall'accordo informale nel Consiglio perché è stato troppo piegato al volere della minoranza. I am disappointed with the informal agreement in Council, because it has bent too much to the will of the minority.
  Lo statuto OMC è stato piegato e violato soltanto perché Bill Clinton nell'autunno 1998 aveva promesso al Congresso statunitense di imporre sanzioni doganali al 3 di marzo. Just because Bill Clinton promised the US Congress in autumn 1998 to impose punitive tariffs on 3 March, the WTO rules were bent and broken.
• ripiegato
• talento

Definition of bent

• folded, dented
• Homosexual
• Of a person) leading a life of crime
• Suffering from the bends
• An inclination or talent
• A predisposition to act or react in a particular way
• The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity
• A declivity or slope, as of a hill
• Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course
• A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing
• Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus
• Any of various stiff or reedy grasses
• A grassy area, grassland
• The old dried stalks of grasses

Examples

• He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
• They were bent on mischief.
• That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
• Man, I am so bent right now!
• He had a natural bent for painting.
• His mind was of a technical bent.
• the bent of a bow

Related words

• absorbent
• incumbent
• benthos
• debenture
• bentgrass
• bentonite
• benthic
• Bentley
• accumbent