Sentence:  Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her <WSD>bred-in-the-bone</WSD> selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated.