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Definition of incorrigible in English: incorrigibleadjective ɪnˈkɒrɪdʒɪb(ə)lɪnˈkɔrədʒəb(ə)l (of a person or their behaviour) not able to be changed or reformed. she's an incorrigible flirt Example sentencesExamples - I bet she knows her husband is an incorrigible flirt who seems to have sex on the brain all the time.
- All who do are either heroes or incorrigible optimists.
- I mean, you've celebrated your second-year anniversary, and you've got this little guy, who I hear is an incorrigible flirt.
- Governments are incorrigible optimists; they believe unabashed self-promotion will yield electoral dividends.
- However, Singh has also long been seen as an enfant terrible, an incorrigible roué. There is something gratifying about such an image, and I don't particularly judge him for cultivating it.
- I was driving to work this morning when I heard the incorrigible duo on the morning radio talk show.
- The incorrigible nanny provided the majority of the laughs throughout with her classroom scene and exercise routines the most humorous of the panto.
- Babel leaves the reader often stunned by his intermittent inhumanity, his incorrigible sentimentality, his deep attachment to Jews, his breezy indifference to Jews, and his love and horror in the face of revolutionary upheaval.
- All the while, a hapless Maggie sits in the drivers' seat, helpless to stop the incorrigible bug from exercising its mighty will.
- An incorrigible striker of attitudes, which is all the more dangerous and at times effective, as he talks himself into believing them himself… Has no sense of morality, thoroughly selfish.
- The usual plan is to hit town and grill the nearest toothless old codger or incorrigible oddball.
- However, now pushing 60, a twilight-years philosophy is creeping into the Lemmster's previously incorrigible worldview, with takes on death and environmentalism.
- You may pass me off as an incorrigible pessimist for having spoken thus; but believe me, if you were in my spectacles or better still if you analyse life the way I have, may be you would have separate ideas.
- He is a great, flabby sham, an actor close to suicide, maybe - and this is an extraordinary display of incipient madness or incorrigible playfulness.
- Cities are complex and demand innovative representational procedures capable of conveying their incorrigible plurality.
- A cat person, claws in velvet paws, he was malicious, vain, an incorrigible snob and social climber, who oiled his way, first, into the society of prominent persons, and then into personal prominence.
- The incomparable, incorrigible Sally Bowles had me reaching for the green nail polish - divine decadence, darling.
- I must admit to being an incorrigible optimist.
- The most compelling portrait in the book is that of Sukanya's grandmother, Ragini Devi, dancer, scholar, and incorrigible rebel.
- He's an incorrigible womanizer who wants to change in order to be worthy of the fiancée he abandoned and then lost track of in the war.
Synonyms inveterate, habitual, confirmed, hardened incurable, unreformable, irreformable, irredeemable, intractable, hopeless, beyond hope/redemption chronic, diehard, deep-dyed, dyed-in-the-wool, long-standing, addicted, hard-core impenitent, uncontrite, unrepentant, unapologetic, unashamed informal impossible
noun ɪnˈkɒrɪdʒɪb(ə)lɪnˈkɔrədʒəb(ə)l An incorrigible person. all repeat offenders, but none of them real hard-case incorrigibles Example sentencesExamples - Burn a few here, whip a few there, throw the recidivists and incorrigibles into re-education camps to keep the rest in line.
- … and then there's always something from the incorrigibles.
- We see the main character's transformation from innocent, Hello-Kitty kid to corrupted, drug-using, sex-having, shoplifting incorrigible.
- The incorrigibles are allowed only one book - the Bible.
- ‘The aim is to drive a wedge between the rejectionists and the incorrigibles,’ said one senior official involved in policymaking.
- We would rather not lock up many criminals, who might best be guided gently into better ways, but if such guidance is rejected what alternative do we have for protecting the community from the incorrigible?
- The Kenny Anthony I know is someone who would see his family deprived of their just due so the incorrigible among us would have nothing to whet their appetites with suggestions of nepotism.
Derivatives noun ɪnkɒrɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪti The two mistakes are opposed to one another by reason of the fact that they take opposite stands with regard to the certitude, immutability, and incorrigibility that does or does not belong to knowledge. Example sentencesExamples - Juveniles held for incorrigibility were the least likely to be held under locked security arrangements.
- Would greater longevity for modern man result in the same incorrigibility?
- And since his subject in this early period of his career was the incorrigibility of human hopefulness, repetition, not progressive plotting, was crucial to his method.
- Girls' average age of entry was fifteen, and the overwhelming majority were incarcerated for incorrigibility, immorality, truancy, desertion, and petty theft.
noun And on this occasion his simony, his oppressions of the church, his persecution of Anselm, and his incorrigibleness, after frequent admonitions, were so strongly represented, that the pope, at the instance of the council, was just going to pronounce him excommunicated. Example sentencesExamples - He has displayed at large the advantages of equality, and then quits the subject in despair from an opinion of the incorrigibleness of human depravity.
- Deep security, impenitency, obstinacy and incorrigibleness, under all these, and under all the dreadful strokes of God, and tokens of his indignation against us, because of the same; so that whilst he continues to smite, we are so far from humbling ourselves and turning to him, that we wax worse and worse, and sin more and more.
- Stubbornness and incorrigibleness under their reproofs and corrections.
- She will have her wish, and the boy, whom in all probability she has wilfully kept away and encouraged in his incorrigibleness, will be sent to a reformatory within a fortnight.
adverb ɪnˈkɒrɪdʒɪbli as submodifier the incorrigibly macho character of news-gathering operations Example sentencesExamples - It won't change the minds of the incorrigibly and wilfully stupid, but I did find it amusing.
- Her statement, however, is incorrigibly abstract and false in its application to the circumstances.
- It forms part of what may be called a human orthodoxy, which recognizes that the human animal is incorrigibly flawed.
- So much so that nobody even blinks an eyelid when she's being wooed passionately by an incorrigibly flirtatious tour guide.
- It is an iron law of politics that a protest movement's vitality is directly related to the number of vaguely familiar, incorrigibly smug, poorly informed celebrities the cause can produce on its behalf.
Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin incorrigibilis, from in- 'not' + corrigibilis (see corrigible). correct from Middle English: If you correct something you put it straight, for it comes from the Latin corrigere ‘make straight, amend’. Someone who is incorrigible (Middle English) cannot be straightened out or corrected.
Definition of incorrigible in US English: incorrigibleadjectiveɪnˈkɔrədʒəb(ə)linˈkôrəjəb(ə)l (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed. she's an incorrigible flirt Example sentencesExamples - A cat person, claws in velvet paws, he was malicious, vain, an incorrigible snob and social climber, who oiled his way, first, into the society of prominent persons, and then into personal prominence.
- He is a great, flabby sham, an actor close to suicide, maybe - and this is an extraordinary display of incipient madness or incorrigible playfulness.
- I mean, you've celebrated your second-year anniversary, and you've got this little guy, who I hear is an incorrigible flirt.
- You may pass me off as an incorrigible pessimist for having spoken thus; but believe me, if you were in my spectacles or better still if you analyse life the way I have, may be you would have separate ideas.
- I must admit to being an incorrigible optimist.
- However, Singh has also long been seen as an enfant terrible, an incorrigible roué. There is something gratifying about such an image, and I don't particularly judge him for cultivating it.
- The most compelling portrait in the book is that of Sukanya's grandmother, Ragini Devi, dancer, scholar, and incorrigible rebel.
- All who do are either heroes or incorrigible optimists.
- All the while, a hapless Maggie sits in the drivers' seat, helpless to stop the incorrigible bug from exercising its mighty will.
- The incomparable, incorrigible Sally Bowles had me reaching for the green nail polish - divine decadence, darling.
- Governments are incorrigible optimists; they believe unabashed self-promotion will yield electoral dividends.
- Babel leaves the reader often stunned by his intermittent inhumanity, his incorrigible sentimentality, his deep attachment to Jews, his breezy indifference to Jews, and his love and horror in the face of revolutionary upheaval.
- However, now pushing 60, a twilight-years philosophy is creeping into the Lemmster's previously incorrigible worldview, with takes on death and environmentalism.
- The usual plan is to hit town and grill the nearest toothless old codger or incorrigible oddball.
- An incorrigible striker of attitudes, which is all the more dangerous and at times effective, as he talks himself into believing them himself… Has no sense of morality, thoroughly selfish.
- Cities are complex and demand innovative representational procedures capable of conveying their incorrigible plurality.
- I bet she knows her husband is an incorrigible flirt who seems to have sex on the brain all the time.
- He's an incorrigible womanizer who wants to change in order to be worthy of the fiancée he abandoned and then lost track of in the war.
- I was driving to work this morning when I heard the incorrigible duo on the morning radio talk show.
- The incorrigible nanny provided the majority of the laughs throughout with her classroom scene and exercise routines the most humorous of the panto.
Synonyms inveterate, habitual, confirmed, hardened
nounɪnˈkɔrədʒəb(ə)linˈkôrəjəb(ə)l An incorrigible person. Example sentencesExamples - ‘The aim is to drive a wedge between the rejectionists and the incorrigibles,’ said one senior official involved in policymaking.
- Burn a few here, whip a few there, throw the recidivists and incorrigibles into re-education camps to keep the rest in line.
- The Kenny Anthony I know is someone who would see his family deprived of their just due so the incorrigible among us would have nothing to whet their appetites with suggestions of nepotism.
- We see the main character's transformation from innocent, Hello-Kitty kid to corrupted, drug-using, sex-having, shoplifting incorrigible.
- … and then there's always something from the incorrigibles.
- We would rather not lock up many criminals, who might best be guided gently into better ways, but if such guidance is rejected what alternative do we have for protecting the community from the incorrigible?
- The incorrigibles are allowed only one book - the Bible.
Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin incorrigibilis, from in- ‘not’ + corrigibilis (see corrigible). |