deep-seated
- s (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held
deep-seated differences of opinion
- Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless .
- Mugabe too acknowledged the "deep-seated mistrust" between the two sides.
- Since the establishment of Israel in 1948 and the resultant uprooting of Palestinians, a deep-seated feeling of shame has taken root in the Arab psyche.