All 3 Uses of
habitual
in
Main Street
- Ray habitually asked her about his window-trimming, the display of the new shoes, the best music for the entertainment at the Eastern Star, and (though he was recognized as a professional authority on what the town called "gents' furnishings") about his own clothes.†
Chpt 21
- After supper, when they had been driven in from the porch by mosquitos, when Kennicott had for the two-hundredth time in five years commented, "We must have a new screen on the porch—lets all the bugs in," they sat reading, and she noted, and detested herself for noting, and noted again his habitual awkwardness.†
Chpt 24
- His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
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(habitual) done regularly