Examples of inveterate

• Since the elite families are inveterate rivals, the alliances are between the elite families and their poorer clients who identify with them.

• Thus, although a world interfered with only by an inveterate bodger is a logical possibility, part of our conceptual background is that our world is not like this.

• The answer lies in the word "inveterate".

• The method of account-keeping had become inveterate habit handed down from generations of hermit-like bursars; he accepted the form of the accounts as being part of the nature of things.

• Being an inveterate borrower, the cliche category has succeeded in making itself into either a treasure trove or a rag bag, depending on your point of view.

• These are inveterate notions of pedagogical practice.

• Tomsett is an inveterate touring fan who publishes accounts of all the tours (and single concerts) he attends.

• The rashness and licentiousness of some, and the inveterate superstition and stiffness of others in the ancient corruptions, had raised great dissensions to the regret of all christians.

• That metric is neither information nor negentropy, for these inveterate yet qualitative terms cannot be quantified, nor even defined, to everyone's satisfaction in today's scientific community.

• We set the local authorities free to deal with that old inveterate evil of the slums.

• You have to start analysing invoices—and farmers are inveterate buyers for cash and very likely have not got detailed invoices.

• He added that both he and his fellow sponsors had no great interest in trying to dissuade inveterate smokers of adult years.

• The need for the power has been proved and established, especially in the cases of the inveterate and deliberate offenders among barrow hawkers.

• It will appeal to those other people who are inveterate gamblers.

• I must confess to being an inveterate square hopper.