engrained

[ en-greynd, en-greynd ]

adjective

1. ingrained.

Other Words From

• en·grain·ed·ly [en-, grey, -nid-lee, -, greynd, -], adverb

Example Sentences

He has been very involved in the community for many years and is very well engrained there.

From Voice of San Diego

That it stems from an engrained sense of unworthiness and shame is something that Dunne is winningly eager to acknowledge.

From The Daily Beast

With them the dirt seems to be engrained and never to be removed, and they could grow potatoes under their nails.

From Project Gutenberg

This virtue of theirs, the People holds, is not engrained in their nature for any good to itself, but rather for its injury.

From Project Gutenberg

And there is the dread of hell-fire—absurd and revolting, yet so engrained that no effort is able entirely to destroy it.

From Project Gutenberg

A spirit of self-assertion was engrained in him, and it was supported by a combative temperament.

From Project Gutenberg

All bruised tissue in which gross dirt has become engrained should be cut away with knife or scissors.

From Project Gutenberg