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• s  habitual
• r  in a habitual and longstanding manner

• Tom was an inveterate smoker and could not kick the habit even after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
• That's probably why Jobs, an inveterate challenge seeker, likes it.
• More than their global peers, however, American teenagers share an inveterate cynicism about corporate messages.

• chronic
• chronically

News & Articles

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• Should IMAX Shareholders Worry About This New Competitor?
  3-D expert RealD wants to strike out into a new market -- where IMAX already dominates the scene. Will RealD pose a real threat to the inveterate huge-screen vendor?        
  June 28, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• Dmitry Medvedev in Russia Profile
  First, let's answer a simple but very serious question,begins Medvedev. "Should a primitive economy based on raw materials and endemic corruption accompany us into the future? And should the inveterate habit of relying on the government,...
• Kimba Wood in Sify
  As an inveterate ball follower, Kevin Pietersen was complicit in this, shifting his fielders every time Tendulkar found a gap. A fidgety man, perhaps we should not be surprised when Pietersen's captaincy follows suit, but such fluidity can be... Derek Pringle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Pringle&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGaqEglwSc9glLKOPEnBh7JD0PQMA Rediff http://www.google.com/url?q=http://inhome.rediff.com/cricket/2008/dec/16british-media-laud-tendulkar.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEIFyXJzdqagHCEsxrgU_1_7-Hlvw Dec 15, 2008 53501 70485 inveterate Adding Stitsky was just as the government describes, an inveterate con man," Wood said his conduct "warrants very severe punishment."