Modifies a noun

• prejudice: There is, alas, a deep-seated prejudice in British education.

• tendency: Does the Prime Minister believe that those changes symbolize a deep-seated republican tendency at the heart of his Government?

• conviction: I probe for some deep-seated ideological conviction behind the pose.

• fear: This analysis shows that the Chinese leadership's deep-seated fears about the escalating levels of labor unrest in China are fundamentally misplaced.

• belief: This kind of color is a perception of a deep-seated human belief in the concept of eternity, the rich saturated cobalt blue.

• anxiety: Many members of the public have a deep-seated anxiety about mobile phone base stations due to emissions.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The officers ' uniforms cowed the most offensive of the rowdies, but I don't think the terror was very deep-seated.

• so: Some of these councilors are so deep-seated in their covens that they live and breathe and thrive within the dogma of thai political structure.

• too: The problems facing farmers are in many cases too deep-seated for that.

• not: On the whole it is not deep-seated ideological commitment.

Used with adjective complement

• evoke: The very term 'crimes of passion ' evokes deep-seated, primitive responses in us all.