Example Sentences

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An inveterately savvy businessman, Williams served as company consultant, his name featured prominently in its advertisements.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022

They found that some people were inveterately equitable, always giving half the actual winnings.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 18, 2017

Though she lacks magical powers, Greenwood’s deadly dowager gradually emerges as one of the great witches of modern literature, insidious, cruel, hypocritical and inveterately manipulative.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2016

Willard Van Orman Quine, the famous American philosopher, put it thus: Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic, but praiseworthy, tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

From Scientific American • May 24, 2011

I missed my studies with Dr. Trefusis inveterately; for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson