inured

How To Use inured In A Sentence

• We are so inured to the news, it's refreshing to have the conflict described by somebody who was there.
• As a long-time B-list critic and junketeer, my conscience has long been inured to the petty scams of the Golden Globes voter shoving another complimentary cream puff into his craw. House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment
• This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn. Archive 2007-09-01
• It was a revelation that shocked a public that had thought itself inured to stories of criminal excess.
• After living here for years I've become inured to the cold climate.
• our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
• They are inured to charges of lies or corruption - violence and prurience are what moves them.
• This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
• Perhaps it works best if seen as a character study of Detective Coleman, an examination of a cop who has seen so much evil that he is inured to it.
• It's been a mode of public conversation which has slowly inured us all against the terrible reality of bombs and guns and the banal bestiality of violence.