habitual
/həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/ adjective C1- Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring. · Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.
- Regular or usual. · Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table.
- Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly. · He’s a habitual chain-smoker.
- Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
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The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few.
Pardon me for neglecting to profit by your advice, which on every other subject shall be my constant guide, though in the case before us I consider myself more fitted by education and habitual study to decide on what is right than a young lady like yourself;” and with a low bow he left her to attack Mr.
She was beautiful, but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but its natural waves seemed somewhat rebellious; her eyes, of the same color as her hair, were surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown, while her whole physiognomy wore that expression of firmness and decision so little in accordance with the gentler attributes of her sex—her nose was precisely what a sculptor would have chosen for a chiselled Juno.
The count received him with his habitual smile.
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