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deep-seated

ADJECTIVE
  1. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held
    deep-rooted prejudice
    ingrained habits of a lifetime
    deep-seated differences of opinion
    implanted convictions
    a deeply planted need

How To Use deep-seated In A Sentence

  • At the heart of all this is a deep-seated ambivalence about government which runs deep in the Australian psyche.
  • It is clearly a job which involves people, often with deep-seated problems, emotional issues and where the stakes can be high.
  • The ill-natured Marx, the venomous Lenin, the murderous Stalin all had a deep-seated loathing of all those who disagreed with them.
  • This violates such deep-seated feelings of justice that it has proved to be unacceptable under any criminal law jurisdiction.
  • If people are going to learn to engage in political action it is more likely to be deep-seated when they can relate it to their experiences.
  • They were animated by the postwar idealism of ex-service personnel, a deep-seated fear of socialism, and a commitment to free enterprise.
  • The authors aren't likely to worry about the loss of a little income - they only do the job because of a deep-seated love of literature.
  • The ultimate expression of this deep-seated corruption is the practice of selling, for that most worldly of objects, money, something that concerns man's deepest and inmost nature - the spiritual peace brought by the remission of sins.
  • Among these people, a veneer of tolerance masks a deep-seated attitude of superiority and is very patronising.
  • He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
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