dyed-in-the-wool

dyed-in-the-wool \dyed-in-the-wool\ adj.
   1. thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising;
      complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.
      [PJC]

   2. dyed before being spun or woven into cloth.

   Syn: yarn-dyed.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

101 Moby Thesaurus words for "dyed-in-the-wool":
      absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
      born, broad-based, chronic, clean, clear, colorfast, comprehensive,
      confirmed, congenital, constant, consummate, deep-dyed,
      deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted,
      deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, double-dyed, downright,
      egregious, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched,
      established, etched, exhaustive, fadeless, fast,
      firmly established, fixed, graven, implanted, impressed, imprinted,
      incorrigible, inculcated, indelible, indelibly impressed, infixed,
      ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, instilled, intensive, inveterate,
      inwrought, irreversible, long-established, old-line, omnibus,
      omnipresent, on a rock, on bedrock, out-and-out, outright, perfect,
      pervasive, plain, plumb, pure, radical, regular, rooted, set,
      settled, settled in habit, sheer, stabilized, straight, sweeping,
      thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous,
      unconditional, unfading, universal, unmitigated, unqualified,
      unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, vested,
      well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set,
      well-settled, wholesale