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Answer for the clue "Like some stains ", 12 letters:
ineradicable

Word definitions for ineradicable in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ineradicable \In`e*rad"i*ca*ble\, a. Incapable of being eradicated or rooted out. The bad seed thus sown was ineradicable. --Ld. Lytton.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not able to be destroyed or rooted out; "ineradicable superstitions" [ant: eradicable ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. not able to be eradicated; of root, too deep to remove.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + eradicable (see eradicate ). Related: Ineradicably .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Poverty seems an ineradicable fact of the human condition.

Usage examples of ineradicable.

Now Adela was in the very best position for understanding those faults of the working class which are ineradicable in any one generation.

French with the ineradicable Neapolitan accent, he was a favourite in every circle he cared to enter.

She crossed her legs and covered an old ineradicable brown stain on her muslin dress with interlaced fingers.

Elaine caught an ineradicable vision of the pale face, still rage-contorted, falling, trailing long fair hair, the loose head bouncing on the earth beside the collapsing body.

The gardeners, for the most part, however, held that the bush belonged to the rose family, but had some ineradicable taint about it, which prevented the buds from coming out, and accounted for its generally sickly condition.

His life was a series of distracted compromises between the proprietor of the paper (and of him), who was a senile soap-boiler with three ineradicable mistakes in his mind, and the very able staff he had collected to run the paper.