incorrigible

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noun

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Recent Examples of incorrigible
Adjective
Mahler-Werfel was described as an incorrigible antisemite who enslaved Jewish men and drove them to early graves. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 Onstage, Madigan presents herself as an incorrigible life-of the-party type. John Roy, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025 For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight. Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025 Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony. airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for incorrigible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incorrigible
Adjective
  • Those nurses never stopped fighting for Mattie, even as her situation seemed hopeless.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • While critical gaps in testing still remain, innovation has ignited a diagnostic boom that has transformed the AIDS fight from hopeless to winnable.
    Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • He was also indicted for possession of a firearm by a delinquent.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The judge presiding over the case could decide to send an 18-year-old to the Youth Part of the Supreme Court, according to Jackson, where the suspect would be considered a juvenile delinquent and thus treated more gingerly than an adult in their early 20s.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • In 1952, she was diagnosed with an illness doctors said was incurable.
    Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Those who hold advanced degrees in mathematics and analytics, or your favorite degenerate gambler, know any piece of datum is only reliant on the trove of data that occurred previously.
    Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
  • This 24-hour dive near Uptown is for true degenerates looking to extend the party to unholy hours.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The fund filed a petition for composition with creditors in February 2018, which was revoked in June 2018 by the Florence court, which declared Malo bankrupt.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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