inveterate

• Nevertheless, so inveterate was their disloyalty and plotting against the authority of the Union, that four months later it became necessary to place the leaders under arrest, finally to head off their darling project of a Maryland secession ordinance. —  A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
• Yet so inveterate was the mismanagement in both the court and the government, that it was some time before Mercy could succeed, by the strongest remonstrances supported by clear proofs of the real situation of her royal highness, in getting her affairs and her resources placed upon a proper footing. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
• Their hostility was so inveterate, and, from the very nature of the case, so inevitable, that Napoleon thought that France should ever be prepared for an attack, and that the military spirit should be carefully fostered. —  Napoleon Bonaparte
• The Ms - daughter of a master craftsman and married to an inveterate (though not necessarily master) DIYer - has learned to do a lot of these tasks on her own (ask her about the time I talked her through the steps of replacing an outlet in a phone call), yet there are holes in her expertise that —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
• Best of all for the inveterate video-scrounger, Microsoft suspects that you don't want to have to figure out whether the show you want to pull from the Internet is on abc. go.com, hulu. com, or joesbarandvideo. com -- you just want to watch it, and it's WMC's job to figure out where and how. —  Betanews

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