Sample sentences for INVETERATE

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Definition

habitual; or something of long standing

She's an inveterate gossip.

inveterate = habitual

Irene is an inveterate impulse buyer.
He was an inveterate gambler, though a poor loser.
Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
The subject was a German who kept a liquor-shop and was an inveterate drunkard.
Dickens, Charles -- Bleak House
It was striking of the children, at all events, to kiss me inveterately with a kind of wild irrelevance and...
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

inveterately = habitually

being an enemy to me inveterate
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest

inveterate = of long standing (for a long time)

This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

inveterate = habitual; or something of long standing

She was an inveterate experimenter in these things.
Twain, Mark -- Tom Sawyer
And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
Shakespeare, William -- King John
I threw up my hands with helpless disapproval of his inveterate materialism and went about making the bed.
London, Jack -- The Sea Wolf
Clifford was indeed the most inveterate of conservatives.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- House Of Seven Gables
It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him.
Dickens, Charles -- Great Expectations
he burst out, with a furtive look, which expressed his inveterate distrust of Natalie and of every one about her.
Collins, Wilkie -- Miss or Mrs.?
He spoke upon all subjects except the sciences, alleging in this respect the inveterate hatred he had borne to scholars from his childhood.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
Lady Lundie, Sir Patrick, and the surgeon, were all inveterate players, evenly matched.
Collins, Wilkie -- Man And Wife
An inveterate Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from the Island of Elba.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
he is an inveterate gambler.
Collins, Wilkie -- The Haunted Hotel
These savages are the most dangerous banditti of the mountains, and the inveterate foe of the trappers.
Irving, Washington -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
The prejudice against habitual silence, among the lower order of the people, is almost as inveterate as the prejudice against red hair.
Collins, Wilkie -- I Say No
Monk, that, from an inveterate enemy, he became a friend to the deposed king.
Dumas, Alexandre -- Ten Years Later

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