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inveterate
1. Inveterate liar and maker of fables
2. Not so well known, perhaps, as an inveterate dog lover
3. Not surprisingly, considering his background, he was an inveterate liar
4. to be an inveterate habit with us
5. � As a routine security precaution, the prisoners were locked up in their rooms at night, a tribute to their reputations as inveterate escapees
6. But he would give a cough; the cough of an inveterate Nyota smoker
7. Kostya crossed himself for fun at these maneuvers, clutched at the front panel, and started to pray about the salvation of all drivers suffering from such an inveterate driver of this jalopy
8. Credit him for cleaning up the public toilets but why not condemn him for having forced his spouse to do the same; why laud him for his quixotic abstinence unmindful of his wife’s conjugal plight; was he not an inveterate autocrat in the democratic garb; what about his falling afoul of Prakasam, and how he played favorites with Nehru
9. Their scattered remains cherish, of course, the most inveterate aversion towards all Muslims
10. “For this is the inveterate shame and guilt of the empty table, so that the few might have delicacies upon their gold-leafed plates, only a couple seats are filled
11. · He also reconciled between the two tribes Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj and put an end to the inveterate enmity among them that consumed most of their financial, physical and psychological potentials
12. I stayed late that night with her, heard much of her life and was surprised to learn that Raymond was an inveterate womanizer
13. Dismissing, then, the church-doctrine of spiritual regeneration in baptism, founded on the inveterate leaning of mankind towards magical and material views of the action of grace, and on misconception of the fact that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Ghost were in the apostolic age often conferred immediately after baptism, we return to the apostolic teaching that the Holy Spirit employs the truth as the ordinary instrument of regeneration
14. with this bunch are the international tourists, laid back locals, inveterate travellers and
15. inveterate shyness to become an actor and a street poet
16. was an inveterate, heavy cigar smoker
17. But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress
18. ' Well, what could I answer, especially as your story is a more likely one than his? for there's nothing but psychology to support his evidence--that's almost unseemly with his ugly mug, while you hit the mark exactly, for the rascal is an inveterate drunkard and notoriously so
19. When the face of the world is beginning to alter, and thunder is heard in the distance, he is still guided by his old maxims, and is the slave of his inveterate party prejudices; he cannot perceive the signs of the times; instead of looking forward he looks back; he learns nothing and forgets nothing; with 'wise saws and modern instances' he would stem the rising tide of revolution
20. In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged
21. An inveterate Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from the Island of Elba
22. He passed the groups of dead with a steadiness of purpose, and an eye so calm, that nothing but long and inveterate practise could enable him to maintain
23. I thought of her having said, "Matthew will come and see me at last when I am laid dead upon that table;" and I asked Herbert whether his father was so inveterate against her?
24. It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him
25. de Villefort formed the idea of uniting in the bonds of affection the two children of these inveterate enemies
26. an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted
27. All his life he had been an inveterate gambler
28. ' Well, what could I answer, especially as your story is a more likely one than his? for there's nothing but psychology to support his evidence—that's almost unseemly with his ugly mug, while you hit the mark exactly, for the rascal is an inveterate drunkard and notoriously so
29. The necessity of economizing it, acquired under the Empire, had grown to be the most inveterate of his habits
30. After two hours' thought and care, during which Eugenie jumped up twenty times from her work to see if the coffee were boiling, or to go and listen to the noise her cousin made in dressing, she succeeded in preparing a simple little breakfast, very inexpensive, but which, nevertheless, departed alarmingly from the inveterate customs of the house
31. First, the inveterate stock market bear, Alan Abelson, noted in his column that the latest Investors Intelligence survey of market letters showed more bearish sentiment than at any time since the bear market low of October 2002
32. The inveterate tendency of the stock market to exaggerate extends to factors other than changes in earnings
33. She was an inveterate experimenter in these things
34. A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them
35. In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged
36. Her Imperial inveterate tomboy Highness Montserrat could notoriously get dirty walking across five meters of freshly scrubbed tile
37. But Winfield was still a trifle of a snot-nose, a little of a brooder back of the barn, and an inveterate collector and smoker of snipes
38. ’ Well, what could I answer, especially as your story is a more likely one than his? for there’s nothing but psychology to support his evidence—that’s almost unseemly with his ugly mug, while you hit the mark exactly, for the rascal is an inveterate drunkard and notoriously so
39. The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted agriculturist, who had lived all his life in the country
40. But as, owing to man's inveterate stupidity, this cannot come about for at least a thousand years, every one who recognizes the truth even now may legitimately order his life as he pleases, on the new principles
41. His inveterate scepticism made him very prudent in his relations with everybody about him, and in conducting these he gave proof of remarkable tact and skill
42. This police superintendent, Flibusterov by name, was an ardent champion of authority who had only recently come to our town but had already distinguished himself and become famous by his inordinate zeal, by a certain vehemence in the execution of his duties, and his inveterate inebriety
43. Among this latter class Nekhludoff was specially struck by one Okhotin, an inveterate thief, the illegitimate son of a prostitute, brought up in a doss-house, who, up to the age of 30, had apparently never met with any one whose morality was above that of a policeman, and who had got into a band of thieves when quite young
44. Let us then enter this necessary and indispensable palace of war, and we shall have the opportunity to observe how our most inveterate instinct, losing nothing of its power, is transformed in its adaptation to the various demands of historical moments
45. But when you, noble gentlemen, need the help of clever, brave, obedient men at the barricades, men who will be ready to meet death with a song and a jest on their lips for the most glorious word in the world—Freedom—will you cast us off then and order us away because of an inveterate revulsion? Damn it all, the first victim in the French Revolution was a prostitute
46. I know, sir, how difficult it is to overcome matured opinions or inveterate prejudices; and I know, too, that, at this time, the individual who shall venture to lay open "the bare and rotten policy" of the time, makes himself the butt of party rancor, and strips himself to the unsparing "lacerations of the press
47. A woman she knew, an inveterate shopper, nodded brightly to her
48. Now is the very moment to get up some grand scheme of pacification; such as may persuade the American people of the inveterate love of our Cabinet for peace, and make them acquiescent in their perseverance in hostilities
