habit-forming
形成习惯,形成习惯的,养成习惯,形成习惯的人
Definitions
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- : tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
Examples
Unlike former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Huckabee is not immediately forming an exploratory committee.
The attendees, who included John Adams and George Washington, set about forming a plan of governance for the new nation.
Hollywood has developed a habit of relying on what worked best in the past, and 300 was hugely successful.
A minute ago I was convinced this wasn't going to work, and now I can feel a script forming.
Does wildlife campaigner Prince Charles's hunting habit make him a hypocrite?
All our intelligent students will insist upon learning what they can of these discussions and forming opinions for themselves.
They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.
She and her younger sister, Janet, had quarreled a good deal through force of unfortunate habit.
Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.
This habit and the fact that she cares more for color than for drawing are the usual criticisms of her pictures.