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incorrigible
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  • this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil."  (source)
  • He's incorrigible, Eliza.  (source)
  • Summer, fall, winter, spring, another summer, another fall-- so much he had given of his active life to the incorrigible lips of Judy Jones.  (source)
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  • Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard.  (source)
    incorrigible = unresponsive to correction
  • He remained infectiously, incorrigibly cheerful.†  (source)
    incorrigibly = being unresponsive to correction
  • They were sent to Nickel for offenses Elwood had never heard of: malingering, mopery, incorrigibility.†  (source)
    incorrigibility = unresponsiveness to correction
  • It's old women — I bet you've been wondering why you haven't seen too many of those around anymore — and Handmaids who've screwed up their three chances, and incorrigibles like me.†  (source)
    incorrigibles = people or things unresponsive to correction
  • ...the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.  (source)
    corrigible = correctable
  • To the contrary, he enjoyed tipping a glass now and then and was an incorrigible ham.†  (source)
  • Unlike Hawthorne's character's demise, though, Jim's is also heartbreaking—to the woman who is his de facto wife, to old Stein, the trader who sent him in-country, and to readers, who come to hope for something heroic and uplifting, something suitably romantic, for the incorrigibly romantic Jim.†  (source)
    incorrigibly = being unresponsive to correction
  • But his default setting was stuck on eternal incorrigibility.†  (source)
    incorrigibility = unresponsiveness to correction
  • It is our humane way of getting rid of incorrigibles who would otherwise have to be executed.†  (source)
    incorrigibles = people or things unresponsive to correction
  • Eros, Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck, his face subdu'd To penetrative shame; whilst the wheel'd seat Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded His baseness that ensued?†  (source)
    corrigible = correctable
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