"inured" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to be accustomed to something, especially something unpleasant, or to become less affected by it over time. Example sentence: After years of living in noisy cities, she had become inured to the constant sound of traffic.
"I know, there's been so many awards ceremonies you almost get inured to them," he said.
Even for a city inured to grand announcements that go nowhere, this is momentous.
Harding, who is inured to the abuse, would simply like better systems to deal with it, as would the moderation and community teams.
The cash-for-tweets row is just the latest manifestation of the fact that we're so inured to advertising that many companies prefer to infiltrate editorial instead.
Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
TWO of the first things that strike visitors to China are irritants to which some residents have become inured: bad air and poor internet service.
This year, he said, will be "a year of action".That in America this pledge was not regarded as the most remarkable element of the speech shows how inured the country has become to dysfunctional government.
In the 24 years since Anwar Sadat decreed a multi-party democracy, Egyptians have grown inured to the shenanigans that produce obscene majorities for the government.
They stand accused of despoiling children's fragile minds with at best trivial (and probably nefarious) wares, producing a whole generation of violent sociopaths reared on gory first-person shooters and inured to human suffering.
Faced with a flesh-and-blood white man in trouble, however, his natural generosity of spirit overcomes his vicious politics.The fact that half the audience laughed at the torture scenes only reinforced the author's message, namely that too many South Africans are inured to brutality.
IN RECENT months Mexicans have become inured to carefully choreographed spectacles of horror.
