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inured

[ UK /ɪnjˈɔːd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈjʊɹd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. made tough by habitual exposure
    hardened fishermen
    our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
    a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured

How To Use inured In A Sentence

  • Bowed down with old age, uninured to the bearing of burdens. Satyricon
  • We are so inured to the laxness and corruptness, that we defend the bullies and liars.
  • a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured
  • The routinization of this kind of scandal in academia has almost inured us to the possibility of recourse.
  • Then there was the world of the camp: a cruel and hard existence during which he became increasingly inured to the pain of those he governed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Torrents of rain drenched them to the skin, but inured to hardships they rejoiced in the favor which the storm bestowed. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
  • After seven years in the firing line with Rangers and three-and-a-half years prising out body pellets at Goodison Park, Smith is inured to criticism.
  • Is it a good thing that over the years we have become inured to it, hardly able to muster a twitch of outrage?
  • The frightening risks taken by clandestine immigrants are so common we are inured to them.
  • Mouths open, not yet inured to the sight, many adopt the famous sculpture's contrapposto.
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