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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms besetting adjective chronic, persistent, long-standing, prevalent, habitual, ingrained, deep-seated, incurable, deep-rooted, inveterate, incorrigible, ineradicable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else. These are the five besetting sins of a general, ruinous to the conduct of war. If he had belonged to the present generation he would, under the circumstances, have fallen into one of the besetting sins of England in these days--the tendency (to borrow an illustration from the stage) to "strike an attitude" in the presence of a social emergency. |
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