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US
/ˌɪnˈkɑɹədʒəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɪnkˈɒɹɪdʒəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ɪnkˈɒɹɪdʒəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- impervious to correction by punishment
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difficult or impossible to manage or control
an incorrigible mess
How To Use incorrigible In A Sentence
- And I could not but thrill as I glimpsed the vastitude of spirit that inhabited these frail, perishing carcasses of us -- the three incorrigibles of solitary. Chapter 20
- All the while, a hapless Maggie sits in the drivers' seat, helpless to stop the incorrigible bug from exercising its mighty will.
- I hear he is an incorrigible flirt.
- Governments are incorrigible optimists; they believe unabashed self-promotion will yield electoral dividends.
- 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.
- “She shall tell you herself, thou incorrigible intermeddler in what concerns thee not, that it is her wish the ceremony should go on — Is it not, Isabella, my dear?” The Black Dwarf
- ---I was sent to Hennington Hills as banishment for being an incorrigible youth. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
- 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.
- ---I was sent to Hennington Hills as banishment for being an incorrigible youth. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
- “Haud your peace, ye knave, and hear what I have to say till ye — We are gaun a bit into the Hielands” — “Ye tauld me sae already,” replied the incorrigible Rob Roy