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Fundamentally, basically; also, in reality. For example, He may speak somewhat bluntly, but at bottom he's always honest . Charles Dickens used this idiom in Nicholas Nickleby (1838): “He's a good pony at bottom.” [Early 1700s]

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April 23, 2024inveterate

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