Sample sentences for INCORRIGIBLE

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Definition

unresponsive to correction (even by punishment)

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction (even by punishment)

Incorrigible drunk driver sentenced to life in prison
Your children are incorrigible.
She's an incorrigible optimist.
Who would have imagined that a bawdy, incorrigible hag could be so irreplaceable?
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction

Your mother is claiming that your past behavior at her house warranted her to discipline you because you were so incorrigible.
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction (even by punishment)

...the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

corrigible = correctable

Only incorrigible optimists had still cherished the delusion that Poland's determined stance would deter Hitler at the last moment.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction

This time it was supposed to be on "An Incorrigible Chatterbox."
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction (even by punishment)

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."
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction

Also, I am not shy about admitting that I am an incorrigible Peeping Tom. I have never passed an unshaded window without looking in, have never closed my ears to a conversation that was none of my business. I can justify or even dignify this by protesting that in my trade I must know about people, but I suspect that I am simply curious.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction (even by punishment)

Summer, fall, winter, spring, another summer, another fall— so much he had given of his active life to the incorrigible lips of Judy Jones.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

incorrigible = unresponsive to correction

"You're incorrigible," said Stremov, not looking at her, and he spoke again to Anna.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
You are quite incorrigible, Harry; but I don't mind.
Wilde, Oscar -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
"You have no business to be incorrigible," was his friend's answer, delivered in no very soothing tone.
Dickens, Charles -- A Tale Of Two Cities
The incorrigible pilgrims have come in with their pockets full of specimens broken from the ruins.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant.
Dickens, Charles -- Hard Times
From an incorrigible heathen, with a heart as black as his practices, Ra Vatu was beginning to emanate light.
London, Jack -- South Sea Tales
Now Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII

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