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"Inveterate" in a Sentence (21 examples)
They overcame many inveterate superstitions.
Mary is the kind of inveterate traveller who will probably never settle down in one place.
Ask your own conscience, Sir William, what has prompted you to become a renegade to your political party and opinions, and led you, for what I know, to be on the point of marrying your only daughter to a beggarly Jacobite bankrupt, the inveterate enemy of your family to the boot.
Australians are inveterate travelers.
Franklin, who calls himself an "inveterate optimist," admits to giving some thought to the legacy of his own long and fruitful life.
Near-synonyms: deep-rooted, ingrained, ineradicable, indelible, radicated, chronic, permanent
an inveterate disease
an inveterate habit
a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.
In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.
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Near-synonyms: hardened, chronic, dyed-in-the-wool
an inveterate idler; an inveterate gambler; an inveterate smoker
an inveterate traveller
"Say no more," interrupted Henrietta: "the very mention of that inveterate gossip accounts for every thing. Do let me, my dear Mrs. Courtenaye," and she took her hand with a kindness that was irresistible, "let me warn you against allowing your happiness to be the sport of a woman like that;...
[S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.
Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.
A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty[…]
1765–70, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.
"the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds."
"none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "
The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c.
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