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done regularly- The counseling is to break the cycle of habitual drug abuse.
habitual = done regularly without repeated thought
- She habitually works through lunch.
- 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
- Delia's habitual meekness seemed to slip from her shoulders like a blown scarf.Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat
- 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
- 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
habitually = in a manner that is done regularly without repeated thought
habitually = regularly and without thinking
habitual = regular behavior
habitually = regularly
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