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.
Just as he really was, he, who was not familiar with such mirrors, could see Count Manuel, housed in a little wet dirt with old inveterate stars adrift about him everywhither; and the spectacle was enough to frighten anybody. Figures of Earth
He is a short, small, dark man with mountaineer legs, a frightful psora, and an inveterate habit of drink. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
The Labour Party will soon learn the value of these polite demonstrations that it is always its duty not to hamper the governing classes in their very difficult and delicate and dangerous task of safeguarding the interests of this great empire: in short, to let itself be gammoned by elegant phrases and by adroit practisings on its personal good-nature, its inveterate proletarian sentimentality, and its secret misgivings as to the correctness of its manners. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
Berlin was an inveterate correspondent, living during the last great flourishing of letter writing.
Her name is perhaps meant to indicate her quality of inveterate femineity. The Wagnerian Romances
The original sin, according to Fechner, of both our popular and our scientific thinking, is our inveterate habit of regarding the spiritual not as the rule but as an exception in the midst of nature. Boing Boing
Waldo & all his adherents, and this latter is nn inveterately malicious creature, will be restless and inde - fatigable till he comes away. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
He wrote memoirs but, like a jazzman improvising on a theme, wandered off inveterately after other people: "An accidental shove on a crowded Loop corner, while awaiting the change in traffic lights;
Pretender was proclaimed in Edinburgh, when the Highland army was on its march to London, and when all the hopes of hollow courtiership and inveterate Jacobitism were turned to the triumph of the ancient dynasty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich.
Stephen Leacock said that the inveterate punster follows conversation as a shark follows a ship. IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
An inveterate rule-breaker, Herrera pushes the envelope by taking traditional dishes one step further – trotter with a cap i pota head and innards of crayfish for example – and is all the more exciting for it. 10 of the best restaurants for new Catalan cuisine
His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler!
The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that.
Being an inveterate gun trader, on more that one occasion I've swapped off to one of my shooting amigos some handgun or rifle that didn't hold a lot of interest for me at the time.
He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy.
Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing.
A dandy, a wit, an inveterate controversialist, he conducted a series of campaigns against the public and critics in the form of pamphlets, annotated exhibition catalogues, and letters to the press.
The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges. A Pair of Blue Eyes
The Greek name alludes to the popular belief that the amethyst was a preventive of intoxication; hence beakers were made of amethyst for carousals, and inveterate drinkers wore amulets made of it to counteract the action of wine. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
It seems that now, finally, recognition has arrived at Werner Herzog's feet, and for an inveterate, lifelong Herzogian (alright, since adolescence), his current presence in the cultural forebrain is something of a vindication. GreenCine Daily: Appreciation. Werner Herzog.
Juvenal wrote that an incurable itch for scribbling cacoethes scribendi takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breast. Tracking Route 128….D.C. Churbuck Reports
The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square.
It also ensures that inveterate political opponents have a reliable forum in which they can engage safely and combatively with each other.
She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the ‘New Look’ promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels.
He was bored and restless—never the best combination for an inveterate leg puller and peace disturber like Twain. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Being an inveterate experimentalist though, every other story ended up being told as some non-linear, multi-viewpoint mosaic (like the Jack Flash sections) or in an epistolic form as letters and journal entries (like in the Caucasus sections). Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan
Narayan maintained a simple lifestyle in Mysore, but became an inveterate traveller.
He looks at the spectator good-naturedly and unintelligently, with the suspicious expression of an inveterate toper [habitual drinker].
A dandy, a wit, an inveterate controversialist, he conducted a series of campaigns against the public and critics in the form of pamphlets, annotated exhibition catalogues, and letters to the press.
Charles is a musician and an inveterate computer freak who was - is - broadly liberal and nonjudgmental in a laid-back musicianly sort of way.
The two key supergrasses on the scheme were described by the judges as ‘inveterate liars’ who received money from Gardai that ‘almost certainly came from the proceeds of crime’.
No,' said Tommy, who was an inveterate gossip with a nose like Lassie when it came to scandal. JUST BETWEEN US
He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
For example, there could be exclusive packages for die-hard film fans and inveterate sports enthusiasts.
And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic.
They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland.
He raised his price by leading an army paid for by Venice to victory over the French at Fornovo in June 1495, but his inveterate scheming led to imprisonment by Venice in 1509.
Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes.
We are so inveterately wedded to the conceptual decomposition of life that I know that this will seem to you like putting muddiest confusion in place of clearest thought, and relapsing into a molluscoid state of mind. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer.
Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs.
One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity.
State; but I advisedly assert that such colonial premium would not rear one disposable seaman for our naval service, and that even the colonial fishermen would derive no commensurate advantage, such is the impoverishing effect of the inveterate system of truck-dealing that boat fishermen, even from the harbour of the capital of Newfoundland, are chiefly paid by daily wages; the advantages derived from the employment of two half-idle fishermen being greater to the truckmaster, in the absence of an available market, than the like amount of fish caught by one customer. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II
`My home, my ancestral home, my old and inveterate Garay Street home!
Whether you are an inveterate chowhound or a downwardly mobile fine-dining refugee, there's bound to be a sidewalk-friendly food provider for you. Bay Area Versus SoCal: Food Trucks Worth The Trip
This the mafoo does with great pleasure, as, apart from the keen interest he takes in racing -- all Chinese being inveterate gamblers -- it is an understood thing that he will receive a good cumshaw from his master for each race that his stable wins. Life and sport in China Second Edition
At Philadelphia I was in such a hurry to pass on, that I exhibited what I fear many will consider a symptom of inveterate bachelorship; but truth bids me not attempt to cloak my delinquency. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
The inveterate entrepreneur and a trio of venture capital firms in January invested $ 5 million in Healthscape Inc.
An inveterate avant-gardiste, he rightly had no sense of loyalty to the nonsense of his youth, but it was still nice to feel unforgotten.
Agnes was an inveterate correspondent and a great supporter of people in distress and need.
Material or Ideal form, is nothing else than the revival of some of the earliest and most inveterate Principles of Paganism, -- the same Paganism which still flourishes among the "theosophic" dreamers of India, and which exhibits its practical fruits in the horrors of Hindoo superstition. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
Occupation in peace, with a reduced establishment, was not easy to get, and his brother, an inveterate wirepuller, must needs know to whose favor Nelson owed it. The Life of Nelson
He's gone from the scared man grieving his family to an inveterate womanizer and back again.
I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
But they ever retained the inveterate vanity of their country: their praise, or at least their esteem, was reserved for the national writers, to whom they owed their fame and subsistence; and they sometimes betrayed their contempt in licentious criticism or satire on Virgil’s poetry, and the oratory of Tully. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The dreamer or dream-ego is an inveterate shape-shifter.
You look up at the familiar rumble of that inveterate high-wing flivver of general aviation, the little monocoupe Luscombe 8.
We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.
I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to.
In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism. A Preface to Politics
Mom also was an inveterate arguer and would defend her point of view to the end.
He's an inveterate experimenter, once trying 14 different espresso machines to determine which one produced the best crema.
The kids are all resourceful and responsible and pitch in financially when needed, while dad is an incontinent, inveterate, indecorous inebriate. Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011
An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.
An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family.
Many inveterate smokers are never able to quit completely.
Observe how inveterate is the malice that wicked men have towards the righteous, how far it will go, and what a variety of cruelties it will invent and exercise upon those against whom they have no cause of quarrel, except in the matters of their God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke.
Okhotin, an inveterate thief, the illegitimate son of a prostitute, brought up in a doss-house, who, up to the age of 30, had apparently never met with any one whose morality was above that of Resurrection
The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group.
I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveterate human failings.
Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control.
In the early days of his career, the German was known as a baseliner while two German stars of the time, Michael Stich and Boris Becker, were inveterate net players. Players adjust to slicker surface
As an inveterate punster myself, I know the danger this poses to the human race. IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
Only the most inveterate racists would hold that all black women lie about rape, and I hardly think the media are that kind of inveterate racists. This Is Not Tawana Brawley
An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant.
If inveterate, or a habit, yet they have lucida intervalla, sometimes well, and sometimes ill; or if more continuate, as the Anatomy of Melancholy
Political stability demanded that the creation of inveterate enemies be minimized.
How should I outroot prepossessions so inveterate, -- the fruits of his earliest education, fostered and matured by the observation and experience of his whole life? Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
This was the last food this inveterate chowhound was to enjoy on Earth—a moment now stored as a poignant memory. When Animals Speak
He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader.
In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters.
He was a patron of the turf, a connoisseur of Italian Opera, and 'surtout' an inveterate libertine. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
This "saponin" has considerable medicinal efficacy, being especially useful for the cure of inveterate syphilis without giving mercury. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
But it was for Becky McDonald that the bell tolled loudest, her departure – a public debagging of inveterate liar Tracy Barlow "'Er medical records show that when she fell down my stairs … SHE WAS NOT PREGNANT" followed by a climactic airport dash in a leopard-print padded jacket – proving a fitting send-off for the reigning holder of soap's Golden Scrunchie for Indomitability In The Face Of Relentless Leisurewear. World of Lather: a month in soap
Berlin was an inveterate correspondent, living during the last great flourishing of letter writing.
Book dwelt long on this subject, and endeavoured to make it so plain, that neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the significancy of their expressions to be inquired into. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
She was one of that peculiar class of females, who, if there is any thing to be said, always claim the privilege of saying it; in other words, an inveterate talker; and who, if we may be allowed the phrase, managed her husband, and all around her, with the length of her tongue. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
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Rex was captivated by the sea in a way that others might be avid golf players or inveterate bird watchers.
I found a poem by Theodore Roethke, 1909-1963, a strangely troubled man from Michigan who grew up amongst his father's commercial greenhouses and is described as a heavy drinker who drank to seek oblivion, a rudely aggressive tennis player, and an "inveterate casual pawer of women. Archive 2008-10-01
The daunting dimensions of the yard initially confounded even this inveterate plantswoman.
Heck, even if you have been there and if you're the kind of inveterate animal whose existence is defined by what happens ... WN.com - Articles related to Pick Your Barcelona Team To Face Real Valladolid
This made sense, even to an inveterate technophobe like myself.
Especially against the doddering dairymaidens of surrender like that inveterate sleazehound KXF who so rapaciously libeled me! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
I happen to love soups, and I wish restaurants would do more with them, so I was pleased to discover that Shade offers three daily selections, and a sampler trio of small cups for the inveterate browser.
What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael's memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation.
Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band.
And Slimy Norman (Quimby) Coleman is, well, slimy, an inveterate (invertebrate?) skirt-chaser, and quite possibly also a wife-beater, who, as others have noted above, is there because Paul Wellstone died. Another GOP Oil-Drilling Myth Is Born!
I think a larger point maybe to be made is we're looking at a guy who is an inveterate maybe even shameless but wonderfully adroit scene stealer.
He was pasty-faced from years out of the sunlight (he was an inveterate night person).
For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government.
Though an inveterate derider of the American success myth, West is much less sanctimonious than the lefties and communists who badger him and whose utopian fantasies he resists. Nathanael and the Damsel
For about half of these church shoppers, their latest search for a new congregation was triggered by a move, which leaves roughly one quarter of all Americans who have searched for their current congregation for a reason other than a change of location.12 Americans are inveterate shoppers, and religion is no exception.13 American Grace
Bruce Schneier isn't just a cypherpunk god, he's also an inveterate foodie. Boing Boing: November 18, 2001 - November 24, 2001 Archives
They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
Yet, I am an inveterate lumper -- and only a halfhearted splitter -- so I feel compelled to connect the dots between these disparate events in an attempt to delineate our era, to name our moment. John Feffer: The Age of Activism
an inveterate changer of the menu
The inveterate entrepreneur and a trio of venture capital firms in January invested $ 5 million in Healthscape Inc.
A courtier is an attendant at a royal court or an inveterate flatterer. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
Now 70, he is an inveterate inventor, the kind that Britain was once famous for.
That other face was a dream," he thought, and studied the aspect of the young man with the unwearied attentiveness of partial stupor, that can note accurately, but cannot deduce from its noting, and is inveterate in patience because it is unideaed. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Bill is an inveterate gambler and has forged Fred's signature for $10,000, which he lost in a crap game.
The captain, a stout teetotaler, and the first mate, an inveterate old toper, got along miserably on board. THE QUEENSBERRY RULES OF DISCOURSE
Baron Stoerck first brought the plant into repute (1760) as a medicine of extraordinary efficacy for curing inveterate scirrhus, cancer, and ulcers, such as were hitherto deemed irremediable. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Waldo & all his adherents, and this latter is an inveterately malicious creature, will be restless and inde - fatigable till he comes away. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh is an inveterate television watcher, whose interests range from news to the latest family serials.
Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers.
The dreamer or dream-ego is an inveterate shape-shifter.
Book dwelt long on this subject, and endeavoured to make it so plain, that neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the significancy of their expressions to be inquired into. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
From these projects, the excellence of the French public transport system ensures that the most fashionable arrondissements are within easy reach of the most inveterate thief and vandal.
About the middle of the last age, an inveterate ulcer was touched and cured by a holy prickle of the holy crown: 53 the prodigy is attested by the most pious and enlightened Christians of France; nor will the fact be easily disproved, except by those who are armed with a general antidote against religious credulity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons.
For it is then as if our tears broke through an inveterate inner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away, leaving us now washed and soft of heart and open to every nobler leading. The Varieties of Religious Experience

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