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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(idiomatic, of a habit, trait, belief, etc.) Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated..
They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.
But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.
Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age.
Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.
Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a bred-in-the-bone Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical.
The point of this political genealogy is not only that Lawrence Cannon was a bred-in-the-bone Liberal, […]
Use bred-in-the-bone when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bred-in-the-bone means (idiomatic, of a habit, trait, belief, etc.) Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated..
Common synonyms include deep-rooted, deep-seated, dyed-in-the-wool.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.
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