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bred-in-the-bone
adj 2
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3ADJ.
cold, deep, exposed, kind
VERB + BRED-IN-THE-BONE
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BRED-IN-THE-BONE + NOUN
exceptionalism, selfishness
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adj
1
Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated.
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.
2
Inveterate or habitual; long-standing.
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.
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They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.
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But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.
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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 sup
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