engrained

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

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

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

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

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

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

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