ingrained

Used with adjective complement

• become: These habits became deeply ingrained in his design psyche.
• get: The grime of the street gets ingrained in their souls.
• have: Several incidents that took place at this visit have deeply ingrained in her mind that what she thinks is true.

Modifies a noun

• dirt: I think I must have constantly had ingrained dirt in my knees due to the constantly kneeling in the dirt.
• habit: We need to begin to change deeply ingrained habits.
• prejudice: I have come to the conclusion that they conflict with two of Old England's most ingrained prejudices.
• tendency: My ingrained tendency to ignore etchings was revealed to me here to be a bit ridiculous, as is perhaps clear, rather rapidly.
• attitude: We should not be afraid to challenge ingrained attitudes.
• belief: Peter's ingrained beliefs are being challenged in a profound way.

Modifying Another Word

• deeply: These habits became deeply ingrained in his design psyche.
• firmly: Despite all that bullying streak within my recent development, the thoroughly decent good sort of chap was still there, firmly ingrained.
• so: Most of the songs are so ingrained that we can sing along whenever we happen across them.
• too: It will be more of the same from me; writing is too ingrained a habit to break!
• now: But whatever it is, it's now ingrained in the process, both as a voyager of discovery and of confirmation.
• indelibly: The complaints reveal secrecy is still " indelibly ingrained " in British public authorities.

Preposition: in

• psyche: It may be deeply ingrained in the English gardening psyche.
• consciousness: But Time and Newsweek are indelibly ingrained in the public consciousness.
• culture: In fact, they're ingrained in the culture.
• mind: This distinctive night of comic entertainment will be ingrained in the minds of those who went for some time.
• history: Our traditions of justice and liberty are ingrained in British history.