engrained

[en-greynd, en-greynd]

adjective

1. ingrained.

Other Word Forms

• engrainedly adverb

Example Sentences

She believes the motherhood penalty is "engrained in society" and some people enforce the stereotypes "without even realising", she says, remembering several comments people had made to her about whether she would return to work after having children.

From BBC

“The sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyle choices that the mass media fosters is so brilliantly and artfully engrained in the viewing public that when people hear the Christian message, it often inevitably seems ideological and emotionally cruel by contrast to the ostensible humaneness of the anti-Christian perspective,” Leo said.

From Salon

Clan identity is deeply engrained in Somali society.

From BBC

A combination of engrained ignorance and political interests is eroding the foundation of something that made our capitalist society possible in the first place.

From Salon

It shows how deeply engrained wig culture is in West Africa, despite a natural hair movement that has been gaining momentum among black women around the world over the last decade.

From BBC