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dyed-in-the-wool
adjective as in deep-rooted
Weak matches
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Nothing has pleased me so much, in a long time, as to see him such a dead-in-earnest, dyed-in-the-wool officer as he is now.
You're the only seasoned, all around, dyed-in-the-wool, genuwine cowpuncher in the whole outfit.
Just to think of the nerve of him chasing the genuine dyed-in-the-wool chief out into the cold and taking his place!
But he was, doubtless, an eccentric though an experienced and dyed-in-the-wool socialist who had lectured over half the globe.
"O, those dyed-in-the-wool football fiends don't care for a little thing like that," said Dick.
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On this page you'll find 700 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dyed in the wool, such as: adamant, immutable, intractable, obstinate, resolute, and rigid.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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