Inveterate in a sentence as an adjective

All the evidence\n points to him being an inveterate gambler, who throws\n the dice on every possible occasion.

But you know the type: the inveterate sci-fi fan, the fantasy aficionado, the lover of all things zombie.

Perhaps I'm an inveterate slacker but those things were deeply camouflaged against the patina of knik-knacks that couldn't hide from her. Oh there is the radio that needs the knob glued to work again, that corner needs a light fixture.

I've developed the reputation of being an inveterate IDE-hater, but even I have to admit: abstractly, they are a good thing.

There are only so many Stanford, MIT, and CMU graduates a year, and an even smaller number of hackathon winners, open source contributors, inveterate interns, etc.

This is the same personality flaw that turns enthusiastic, inveterate puzzle solvers into the kind of puzzle-mad interviewers you seem to hate with a vengeance.

In a post that took less than 5 minutes to read I learned the author has undergraduateresearch experience, was admitted to an MD/PhD programme and is an inveterate namedropper.

Inveterate in a sentence as an adverb

According to British sources, this chief of state was an "intolerant bigot", a "furious fanatic" with a "rooted and inveterate hatred of Europeans", who had "perpetually on his tongue the projects of jihad".

Location: Chicago, ILPosition: Software EngineerCompany: MarkITxMarkITx is looking for talented generalists join our software engineering team. We want colleagues who are smart and get things done, who are inveterate builders, tinkerers and detectives.

"The mind has acquired a confirmed and inveterate habit of inattention to [the luminous stimuli]; for they no sooner appear than quick as lightning the thing signified succeeds, and engrosses all our regard..." The only profession in life in which it is necessary, by training the eye and mind, to break this process apart - to separate seeing from recognising - Reid says, is painting.

While it's true that I'm an inveterate disaster porn addict[1] and would therefore love this regardless, I think that Nathan's piece serves as a model in that it speaks to learning from failure rather than gloating about nascent success -- we collectively need much more of this!

If you wish nails not to be driven, why then does it make sense to ban hammers, rather than to place nail-driving beyond the pale of law -- and then enforce that law, as firmly as you find necessary to discourage whatever recalcitrance you encounter on the part of inveterate carpenters?

If you need absurd, obscene amounts of power, a desktop computer is the way to go.> But even as an inveterate PC hot-rodder, I've noticed that in the last few years I've started to lose interest in the upgrade treadmill of ever faster CPUs with more cores, more sophisticated GPUs, more bandwidth, more gigabytes of RAM.> I think we're way past the point of satisfying the computing performance needs of the typical user.

Inveterate definitions

adjective

habitual; "a chronic smoker"

See also: chronic

adverb

in a habitual and longstanding manner; "smoking chronically"

See also: chronically