engrained

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Examples

• He has been very involved in the community for many years and is very well engrained there.

• That it stems from an engrained sense of unworthiness and shame is something that Dunne is winningly eager to acknowledge.

• With them the dirt seems to be engrained and never to be removed, and they could grow potatoes under their nails.

• This virtue of theirs, the People holds, is not engrained in their nature for any good to itself, but rather for its injury.

• And there is the dread of hell-fire—absurd and revolting, yet so engrained that no effort is able entirely to destroy it.

• A spirit of self-assertion was engrained in him, and it was supported by a combative temperament.

• All bruised tissue in which gross dirt has become engrained should be cut away with knife or scissors.