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Cleanly

Habitually clean pure innocent

Churchgoing

Habitually attending church

Blink eyed

Habitually winking

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Besetting

Habitually attacking harassing or pressing upon or about as a besetting sin

Peevish

Habitually fretful easily vexed or fretted hard to please apt to complain querulous petulant

hardworking

habitually working diligently and for long hours

Drunkenness

guilty of murder, R. v. Meade (1909) 1 KB 895; but see R. v. Beard, 1920 AC 479. Habitual Drunkards.--The confinement of habitual drunkards is regulated by the (English) Habitual Drunkards Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict.

Preventive detention

1 KB 364, in certain cases be charged, R. v. Smith, (1910) 1 KB 17, with being an habitual criminal, and if the charge is established, he can, in addition to a punishment of penal servitude, receive

Regular

principal systematic; (2) harmonious symmetrical; (3) acting or done or recurring uniformly or calculably in time or manner, habitual, constant, orderly; (4) conforming to a standard of etiquette or procedure, correct, according to convention; (5) properly constituted

Habitually

Habitually, a person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is

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