Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inveterate manner; with obstinacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inveterate manner or degree.
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- adverb For a long time.
Etymologies
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Examples
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During the Cold War thinkers such as Jeane Kirkpatrick made the crucial distinction between autocratic regimes that were capable of a gradual process of reform and much more repressive totalitarian ones that were not—and were also inveterately hostile to the U.S.
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Brazil is so inveterately racist that it has never even needed racist laws to keep its black people in their totally low position.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in the country 2009
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I knew what I was about, for I was aware of a little weakness of his, and of a little private sinning of which he was regularly and inveterately guilty.
MOON-FACE 2010
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Brazil is so inveterately racist that it has never even needed racist laws to keep its black people in their totally low position.
Global Voices in English » Alex Castro: A liberal, libertarian and libertine Brazilian blogger 2009
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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic, but praiseworthy, tendency to die before reproducing their kind
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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It was a very rude word, at least for a gnome (although gnomes were almost inveterately polite, so it probably was not that rude insofar as Gunter was concerned).
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Now Brown, the inveterately youthful veteran pol, who is much more like the ancient yet ever regenerated and mischievous Doctor in Doctor Who than the wizened wizard Gandalf of the ponderous Lord of the Rings,has a massive crisis of governance on his hands.
William Bradley: 2010: A Jerry Brown Odyssey William Bradley 2010
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“The avowed Tories are I think more inveterately so than ever,” Morris wrote to a friend.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Now Brown, the inveterately youthful veteran pol, who is much more like the ancient yet ever regenerated and mischievous Doctor in Doctor Who than the wizened wizard Gandalf of the ponderous Lord of the Rings,has a massive crisis of governance on his hands.
William Bradley: 2010: A Jerry Brown Odyssey William Bradley 2010
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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic, but praiseworthy, tendency to die before reproducing their kind eric replied to comment from Jeffrey Shallit
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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