inveterate
Example Sentences
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President Emmanuel Macron, an inveterate political gambler who in 2017 became the nation’s youngest elected leader, announced his re-election bid just a day before the deadline, against the background of the crisis in Ukraine.
From New York Times
Someday, he says, the defense team in a murder trial is going to argue that their client was revved into a frenzy due to, in part, an inveterate video game habit.
From The Verge
His father, he said, was as an inveterate tinkerer, including with a “cherished 1962 Impala” that did not survive Mr. Powell’s long weekend of work on the engine.
From New York Times
An inveterate contrarian and a wide-ranging skeptic, Sahl was a self-appointed warrior against hypocrisy who cast a jaundiced eye on social trends, gender relations and conventional wisdom of all sorts.
From Seattle Times
An inveterate researcher, she shares sources and intellectual inspirations in photocopied readers and zines she publishes through Cassandra Press, the imprint she co-founded.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
