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habitual English

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habitual

A habitual behaviour is done regularly, often without planning or making a decision to it. In our changing world, the old habitual ways of doing business will not work any more.

habitual

(= accustomed, customary, wonted) commonly used or practiced; usual his accustomed thoroughness took his customary morning walk his habitual comment with her wonted candor

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That was habitual in the past.
They'd turn carnivorous for lack of a habitual diet.
Or are you not, in fact, a chronic and habitual liar?!
The habitual clash between public and private schools.
Now, this is a typical seaman, a half-witted, wife-beating, habitual drunkard.
You confess to being a habitual criminal. Ah, Mr. Chairman.
All your pain and goodness and graciousness harken those habitual evil. Roger's boys are here, too.
He told me of the Keller process for reforming the habitual criminal. and invited me to visit Stangmoor prison with him.
I've heard of the habitual criminal, of course. but I never dreamed I'd become involved with the habitual crime.
First: it has been demonstrated that in our country torture has become frequent, systematic and habitual.
He's a habitual liar.
Dawn Davenport, you are a habitual liar. and I'm quite well-aware of it.
Habitual knife, shears.
She's a habitual offender.
He's a hundred per cent habitual drunk.
Look, everybody's an habitual somethin'.
Sir, this man is a habitual.
They lived in the fields, on the roads, in the woods, neglecting all the amenities of a habitual human life.
I know it isn't easy to question habitual sex offenders and certified nuts but nail them and talk to them.
Unfortunately, violence is habitual with the Troglytes.
You are a habitual offender.
If it weren't for us habitual offenders, you would have nothing to do.
He is a habitual offender.
That is the price you pay for your crimes. ( The killer and habitual escapee. ) and repetitive attempts to escape.
Habitual knife, shears. He doesn't need anything else.
The question is, Frau Helm, were you lying then, are you lying now? Or are you not, in fact, a chronic and habitual liar?
They filed me as a habitual offender.
For certain reasons we, a group of courtiers, were torn away from our habitual atmosphere and sent away to a foreign land.
Until, a few months later Tycho died of his habitual overindulgence in food and wine.
The effects of habitual use are indeed disturbing.
Was there any physical evidence to indicate whether or not Ms. Blaine was an habitual user of drugs?
The idea is that an understanding of case history should, in parole situations, help the subject to avoid habitual traps.

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In the medium term, over-spenders should trim their outlays and habitual exporters should increase theirs.
In all the Indian protests about the terrible blow dealt by the Americans to Indian self-esteem, only a few mentioned the habitual exploitation of the poorer classes.
As a habitual contrarian, I pose the question because almost everyone seems to believe that it would, and that it must be prevented at all costs.
What stood out instead was their habitual frame of reference, which was tied to their personal identities.
But a rule to remember is that even if this is not achieved, India and countries like it will gain more by being active participants in WTO deliberations than by withdrawing or being habitual naysayers.
In the short run, though, the world is engaged in a gigantic game of passing the parcel, with no country wanting to take the habitual exporters' goods and their capital surpluses.
Last summer's war in Georgia, and the Kremlin's habitual efforts to destabilize Ukraine's pro-Western government, serve as warnings for what Lukashenko can expect if he moves precipitately.
Central American politicians' habitual tough talk on violent crime has paid few dividends in practice; it makes little impact on drug cartels, whose resources often far outweigh those of the local police or army.
If we succeed, the behavior we judge to be better will become habitual - and thus no longer require a conscious act of will to keep acting in that way.
But, although Sarkozy may not have sold his party on the merits of George Bush's America, he has softened its once habitual suspicions about the US.
When embedded in new and unfamiliar settings, our habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and acting no longer function to sustain the moral compass that has guided us reliably in the past.
But women were not serving only as support workers, the habitual role to which they are relegated in protest movements, from those of the 1960's to the recent student riots in the United Kingdom.

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