I am now inured to humiliation; and it would be strange if I refused you this, after having granted you so much. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Verb (used with object) : inured to cold. From Dictionary.com.
It's probably just as well that they remain inured in Seattle. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Support our mercenaries] Reference
I have gotten kind of inured to the prices, but that one seemed really over the top. From Wordnik.com. [Tourist Prices on the Riviera Maya] Reference
My friend and her husband had become "inured" to the noise. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Capitalism] Reference
The point was he became "inured" to her unrealistic definition of a "relationship," inevitably capitulated and has ever since been treated like sh!. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Capitalism] Reference
New Yorkers sometimes seem inured to urban horrors. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Of Little Elisa] Reference
Venezuelans are inured to a certain amount of economic dysfunction. From Wordnik.com. [Atención Deficit] Reference
We are so inured to their power we tend to treat them irresponsibly. From Wordnik.com. [Frontiersmen Are History] Reference
Here the body is briskly exercised more than ordinary, and inured in. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
Some commuters were annoyed by the disruptions -- even in strike-inured France. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Facing A 'Season Of Strikes' (PHOTOS)] Reference
Ten years of waitressing should have inured me to this all too common situation. From Wordnik.com. [Stop Ordering Me Around] Reference
And also, we are in the middle of a culture that's more inured to bloody images. From Wordnik.com. [Eakins' Classic 'Gross Clinic' Gets Another Look] Reference
You have suffered so much before that your soul must now be inured to misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Slavery had inured me to hardships that made ordinary trouble sit lightly upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Nigeria's business-promotion efforts, for example, built a kleptocracy inured to poverty. From Wordnik.com. [A Good Life For a Few] Reference
The argument was made, as now, that its benefits inured to particular classes or sections. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Up until now, Iraq's ruling class have been inured from the hardships ordinary Iraqis face. From Wordnik.com. [Iraqis Suffer Through Power Crisis] Reference
Their sturdy frames were inured to hardships, and they joked and laughed as they went along. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
The long march had rendered the Tartars inured to hardship and wholly indifferent to danger. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
I have become inured to a health-care system gone crazy because I have to function within it. From Wordnik.com. [We Have Lost Our Humanity] Reference
Even frequent fliers, who should be inured to the indignities of travel, dream of bailing out. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From The Sardine Run] Reference
He has, in their "Book of Virtues" view, inured people to evasions, deceptions and unfaithfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Confounding The Right] Reference
The present people are inured to slavery, harassed with tyrannies and impositions of their priests. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
In this way, America's soldiers, long before they reach the front, are inured to the sight of blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
For this material superiority of the free-labor States inevitably inured to the advantage of liberty. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Leichhardt and his party were inured to every sort of abomination in the way of food, and were not difficult to please. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
But the state has become so inured to fiscal disaster over the past two years a state of crisis has become the status quo. From Wordnik.com. [California Budget Impasse Poised To Become Longest Ever] Reference
This work was not accomplished without some inconvenience, and even suffering to the boys as yet scarcely inured to hard labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
Researchers discovered that young drivers had become inured to the horrific images often used in road-safety education campaigns. From Wordnik.com. [Hitting Below the Belt] Reference
The Patriots, who seem inured to the idiocy that surrounds their baseball brethren, dispatched Seattle for their record 20th win. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: On a Limp and a Prayer] Reference
The public may have grown inured to sirens warning about the emergency-room crisis, but the situation is more distressing than ever. From Wordnik.com. [How to Stop the Bleeding] Reference
For the thoroughly inured and brain-injured there's also a 24-7 fear channel on cable in case someone needs to scare themselves to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Wages of Fear] Reference
Yet by the time they heard last week that the trial was on, most of the president's staff, inured to battle, were more resigned than upset. From Wordnik.com. ['I'm So Glad To Be Here In Arkansas'] Reference
But having thus - been thus imprisoned then having grown inured, what readjustment traumas will the miners be up against once they get out?. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping Trapped Chilean Miners Sane] Reference
He inured himself to cold and all mortifications; and was so dead to himself, as to seem incapable of betraying the least emotion of anger. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The Spaniard that sat between Morgan and Jeffreys was a powerful, black-bearded fellow, inured to his lot by three years of slavery at the oar. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
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