All 5 Uses of
accustomed
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- He was so badly dressed that even a man accustomed to shabbiness would have been ashamed to be seen in the street in such rags.†
Chpt 1.1 *accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- Forasmuch as, though your exterior would not command respect, my experience admonishes me that you are a man of education and not accustomed to drinking.†
Chpt 1.2
- It had happened to him many times going home not to notice the road by which he was going, and he was accustomed to walk like that.†
Chpt 1.4
- Sonia had long been accustomed to the room's being uninhabited.†
Chpt 4.4
- Katerina Ivanovna determined now to invite this lady and her daughter, "whose foot she was not worth," and who had turned away haughtily when she casually met them, so that they might know that "she was more noble in her thoughts and feelings and did not harbour malice," and might see that she was not accustomed to her way of living.†
Chpt 5.2
Definition:
to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something.