All 3 Uses of
incorrigible
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- As to me—will you never understand that I am incorrigible?†
Chpt 2.11 *
- "You have no business to be incorrigible," was his friend's answer, delivered in no very soothing tone.†
Chpt 2.11
- Some of his King's Bench familiars, who were occasionally parties to the full-bodied wine and the lie, excused him for the latter by saying that he had told it so often, that he believed it himself—which is surely such an incorrigible aggravation of an originally bad offence, as to justify any such offender's being carried off to some suitably retired spot, and there hanged out of the way.†
Chpt 2.21
Definition:
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(incorrigible) unresponsive to correction (even by punishment)