They have the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the defense and not to the public welfare of its results.

In fact it was ever in danger of corruption through the inveterate Chinese habit of caring only for appearances.

In vain I contended with inveterate habits.

"I have an inveterate habit of speaking the truth," Poe once wrote.

Lecturing is an inveterate academic habit, and digression a hallmark of age.

Peirce held the view, which he called objective idealism, that "matter is effete mind, inveterate habits becoming physical laws".

He wished, no doubt, to turn me from my inveterate habit.

Poor Abel, as he was called, had an inveterate habit of over-sleeping himself and coming late to his work.

Again she repents in a terribly tangible way over her past, saying that every night her flesh burns because of her old, inveterate habits.

But because of inveterate habit, it does not always appear to be like this.