Incorrigible
[ɪn'kɒrɪdʒɪb(ə)l] or [ɪn'kɔrɪdʒəbl]
Definition
(a.) Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
(n.) One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.
Typed by Ewing
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Irremediable, remediless, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irremedicable, irrecoverable, hopeless, incurable, past cure, past mending.[2]. Depraved, corrupt, impenitent, profligate, abandoned, obdurate, hardened, lost, shameless, graceless, recreant, irreclaimable.
Inputed by Alex
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CORRIGIBLE]
Editor: Yvonne
Definition
adj. and n. bad beyond correction or reform.—ns. Incorr′igibleness Incorrigibil′ity.—adv. Incorr′igibly.
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Examples
- As to me--will you never understand that I am incorrigible? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- MY DEAR HARRIETTE, began young Berkeley, and then went on, with his usual, incorrigible duplicity and meanness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Said he, after he had watched some more than usually noisy combustion at the fire, This boy, Humphrey, is incorrigible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Scotch again: incorrigible papa. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You have no business to be incorrigible, was his friend's answer, delivered in no very soothing tone. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to _Order_; and, now I am grown old and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The incorrigible pilgrims have come in with their pockets full of specimens broken from the ruins. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What are you thinking of, you incorrigible missionary? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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