The phrase "alarming propensity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a concerning tendency or inclination towards a particular behavior or action.
Example: "The alarming propensity for violence in the community has raised concerns among local leaders."
Alternatives: "worrying tendency" or "disturbing inclination."
The battle goes on to marry such a healthy spirit of adventure with a determination to reduce an alarming propensity for simple mistakes.
ALONG THE RIVER — The Mississippi runs the spine of America, touching 10 states and draining waters from 21 more, a vast waterway with a rich mythology, a sometimes powerful beauty and an always alarming propensity to flood.
The "surprising and alarming propensity" of Russian receivers to blow up, and by extension the apprehension it causes in Soviet viewers, was uncovered by researchers from D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, which yesterday released a study of the communications media in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Those leery of DDT are conservatioists, organic farmers, & doctors who are alarmed over DDTs propensity for storing up in body fat of those exposed to it.
Jason Labarbera, who impressed the Rangers during last season's training camp before alarming them with his propensity for gaining weight, was also at the Intrepid yesterday.
Drongos exploit this propensity by changing their alarm-call type when making repeated theft attempts on a particular species.
Only one problem: That unit, like every other one we'd ever tested, had a nasty propensity to fire off false alarms.
This would seem to favour approaching unfamiliar and potentially dangerous passages on the left and is consistent with observations across multiple ant species of disproportionate appendage severance on the left in interspecific fights, and a greater propensity to turn left when alarmed [ 4].
The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
The friend of popular governments, never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
Other behaviours such as division of labour [10] and response to alarm pheromone in honeybees [11], seasonal changes in territoriality in songbirds [12], propensity to aggressively peck in chickens [13], geotaxis in Drosophila [14] and learning and memory in mice [15] have been linked to specific genes using transcript profiling.
