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Definition

done regularly

The counseling is to break the cycle of habitual drug abuse.

habitual = done regularly without repeated thought

She habitually works through lunch.

habitually = in a manner that is done regularly without repeated thought

As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

habitually = regularly and without thinking

Delia's habitual meekness seemed to slip from her shoulders like a blown scarf.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat

habitual = regular behavior

He was then a bald-headed man of forty-five, a little fat and from long association with mother and the chickens he had become habitually silent and discouraged.
Sherwood Anderson -- The Egg

habitually = regularly

Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
Luke 16:19 (NASB)
How unconsciously many habitual actions are performed, indeed not rarely in direct opposition to our conscious will.
Charles Darwin -- The Origin of Species
her habitual neatness
My hand worries the absence on my left side, a habitual gesture now.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
I know no one more entitled, by unpretending merit, or better prepared by habitual suffering, to receive and enjoy felicity.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
Therefore, they habitually feared a man who stood alone.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
It was in this way, at this season, that the aunt and niece, after they had had tea, habitually spent their evenings.
Henry James -- Washington Square
Dr. Stanpole was not patrolling the corridor as he habitually did when he was not busy, so I sat down on a bench amid the medical smells and waited.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
Hence, they habitually appeal to society at large, without distinction of class; nay, by preference, to the ruling class.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
But all the way home he forgot he wasn't in Australia still, and he habitually drove on the wrong side of the road.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
Her hands were light and competent on the wheel, her hair scooped back in its habitual braid.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
"Stop crying," I said, but although she habitually followed me around, she did not obey.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
We don't habitually get captured.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
Or maybe he just habitually had one stuck in his mouth.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die

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