What is "chronically"

Usage examples of "chronically".

Amelia rested in bed, still sick and chronically weak, Veil flew across space in a midsized craft with Chev and Magen aboard.

He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension.

His job was to keep pests from the food, whether of the insect variety or the chronically hungry apprentice variety.

If the overseer had to get himself dirty by wading in the water, then he would be in a foul moodwhich could mean beatings, or a reduction in the chronically meager food.

It's well known that no private nursing home will take the chronically sick.

Prince Q (as would anyone who refuses to eat pretty much anything but Töblerone) suffers chronically from Candida albicans, with attendant susceptibilities to monilial sinusitis and thrush, the yeasty sores and sinal im-pactions of which require almost daily drainage in the cold and damp of early-spring Boston, U.

The only pleasure afforded a chronically cuckolded wife, of witnessing the anguish of one's husband's current mistress when he moves on to a new one, was denied to poor Kitty because she felt that Rannaldini was far more smitten with Flora than any of the others.

Foot is broke, Yevgeny’s of a daft sect whose members torture one another, Dappa is persona non grata in all lands south of the Sahara, Vrej Esphahnian’s family is chronically ill-funded.

Even if she had to make no other detachments, that was going to leave her chronically shorthanded, and she could almost see the domino effect rippling towards her.

But the engram can manifest itself chronically as either a somatic (a noun has been made out of an adjective here and it is commonly employed in Dianetics to avoid the use of the word pain, which is not embracive and which is restim-ulative) or as an aberration or as both together.

At thirty-three he lived with a chronically ill wife in Murray Hill.

Brenna said, and gave them a pick-up time for the happy but chronically overenergized Snifter.

Her tidy script told of a mysterious Madame Neroda, who headed the ballet, of the pianist Felsner-Imbs, who had followed her to Berlin, of little Fenchel, her partner in the pas de deux, and of ballet master Haseloff, who, chronically hoarse and always rather weird, directed exercises and re hearsals.

Because of his notoriety as a genius, his celebrity as a synthetic chemist, and his prominence as a neuroscientist, applications for staff, doctorate, and postdoctorate positions greatly outnumbered the positions that Edward had been able to carve out of his chronically limited space, budget, and schedule.

The chronically slow rate of climb suddenly changed as something seemed to give the vessel a hearty shove in the rear.