The most ridiculous character in Pay Any Price may be Dennis Montgomery, who is described as an inveterate gambler and swindler.
An inveterate networker, he managed to get Tennessee Williams as the chief signatory on one letter-writing campaign.
This inveterate list maker also loved minutiae; in his copious account books, he kept track of every cent he ever spent.
It gives the best outcomes to the most inveterate bad actors.
Pouw insists that this anecdote is nothing more than “film-noir fantasy” and that Scarff is a “self-admitted inveterate liar.”
But of all others, they are the most inveterate, which are produced on account of religion.
The result was, that he more than recovered his possessions, and died an inveterate miser.
But why then, will you say, are they so inveterate against it?
Yet his inveterate surliness the rascal could not wholly conquer.
The lower classes all over the country are inveterate thieves.
inveterate in·vet·er·ate (ĭn-vět'ər-ĭt)
adj.
Firmly and long established; deep-rooted.
Persisting in an ingrained habit; habitual.
