Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deeply instilled; firmly established.
- adjective Persistent; habitual.
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Examples
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She was religious, and went to Mass on Sundays; her bred-in-the-bone politeness prevented her from comment the numerous times I had gone off on anti-religion rants.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Author Satoshi Kanazawa, an âevolutionary psychologist,â then went on to draw some incendiary and fanciful conclusions from his findings: conservatism, he explained, is a very human predisposition based on self-interestâa bred-in-the-bone inclination to care about family and friends rather than the wider world that is genetically unrelated to us.
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Author Satoshi Kanazawa, an âevolutionary psychologist,â then went on to draw some incendiary and fanciful conclusions from his findings: conservatism, he explained, is a very human predisposition based on self-interestâa bred-in-the-bone inclination to care about family and friends rather than the wider world that is genetically unrelated to us.
Charlie Gillis 2010
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She was religious, and went to Mass on Sundays; her bred-in-the-bone politeness prevented her from comment the numerous times I had gone off on anti-religion rants.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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The abiding, bred-in-the-bone ignorance of posh people about ordinary people – how we live, think, feel.
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Three of the projects he's developing, including one about Oscar Levant and a movie of the classic Hollywood novel "What Makes Sammy Run?", return to his favorite, bred-in-the-bone subject.
Days of 'Thunder' 2008
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The hatred of the plaintiffs bar is a bred-in-the-bone attitude among Republicans, in the boardroom and on Main Street.
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And he stuck with the lesson like a burr, that bred-in-the-bone Kendrick stubbornness keeping him at it even when he was close to tears of sheer frustration.
Wild Blood Horton, Naomi 1997
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Theodore Roosevelt was a thoroughgoing, bred-in-the-bone individualist, but not as the term is ordinarily understood.
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Harold Howland
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And this was valuable to him in preparing him to command under-officers in whom a rigorous uniformity of training could not obliterate bred-in-the-bone differences.
Foch the Man Laughlin, Clara E 1918
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