Meaning of bred-in-the-bone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated.
   idiomatic, usually
2. Inveterate or habitual; long-standing.
   idiomatic

Examples

“They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.”

“But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.”

“Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age.”

“Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.”

“Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a bred-in-the-bone Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical.”

“The point of this political genealogy is not only that Lawrence Cannon was a bred-in-the-bone Liberal, […]”

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