engrained

That it stems from an engrained sense of unworthiness and shame is something that Dunne is winningly eager to acknowledge.

He understood that the truths which had been engrained into his very being were much like seeds.

This conviction of the criminality of the honest is engrained in the criminal mind, and one meets it at every turn.

With them the dirt seems to be engrained and never to be removed, and they could grow potatoes under their nails.