ingrained

IPA: ɪngrˈeɪnd

adjective

  • Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
  • Fixed, established
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Examples of "ingrained" in Sentences

  • But football comes with a warning label ingrained in every parent's worrisome mind.
  • Such assumptions are ingrained, which is why I advised Republicans not to hold their collective breath “courting the black vote.”
  • Since France is an old country, with a certain ingrained skepticism toward change, necessary reforms take more time to be accepted.
  • I stooped down and picked up the paper and would you believe it – so ingrained is my Parisian sense of comme il faut – I murmured "pardon" before I read it.
  • It’s something I had ingrained from a really young age as my grandmother had a fantastic sense of the ridiculous which she passed on to my mother and my aunt as well as to me.
  • So firmly ingrained is the combat mentality that neither party believes the opposing candidate is capable of "winning" the election — only that its own candidate or campaign is capable of losing it.
  • I've always wondered if there is something genetically inherent in a redhead to be like this, or whether it's a habit ingrained from a lifetime of people just expecting that one will pop off at any given moment.

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