Both Uses of
inveterate
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- It might be explained by our inveterate impracticality.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- for there's nothing but psychology to support his evidence—that's almost unseemly with his ugly mug, while you hit the mark exactly, for the rascal is an inveterate drunkard and notoriously so.†
Chpt 6.2
Definition:
habitual; or something of long standing