inveterate

How To Use inveterate In A Sentence

• In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
• He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit.
• From then on he became an inveterate boat-dealer, a habit he preferred to keep secret by indulging it in other towns. THE MAIN CAGES
• Today sexual-harassment suits might have shut down his balletic endeavors, for Diaghilev was inveterate about conscripting into romance the young men he made the leading male stars of his company, most notably Nijinsky and Massine. The Passions of an Impresario
• Gentle purging of the bowels agrees with most ulcers, and in wounds of the head, belly, or joints, where there is danger of gangrene, in such as require sutures, in phagedaenic, spreading and in otherwise inveterate ulcers. On Ulcers
• Add to that: vain, an inveterate breaker of promises, a gambler and a lover of alibis, and the picture becomes ever more confusing.
• He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass.
• Jesus, if the Bible is to be believed, was an inveterate punster. IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
• Is it objected against us, by the most inveterate and the most uncandid of our enemies, that we have opposed any of the just prerogatives of the Crown, or any legal exertion of those prerogatives?
• In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner.