unrepentant
adjective
un·re·pen·tant
ˌən-ri-ˈpen-tᵊnt 
1
: not feeling or exhibiting shame or remorse : not repentant
an unrepentant sinner
2
: feeling or showing no inclination to change : unapologetic
He was an unrepentant eccentric and flamboyant dresser.—
David Sweetman
David Sweetman
unrepentantly
adverb
… plays the part of patient vegetarian whenever her unrepentantly carnivorous brother drops in …
—John Haney
John Haney
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she was unrepentant about getting rid of her ex-roommate's junk
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As the controversy raged on, the couple remained boldly unrepentant.
—Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
More twisted still is the underlying explanation for Maddie’s psychosis, which eventually comes out in therapy, giving Johnston a chance to play the unrepentant screen mom.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
The main villain, meanwhile, is irascibly unrepentant for a very long time.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
But since then, Dodik has refashioned himself as an unrepentant nationalist, denying the genocide of 8,000 Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995, the war’s most notorious massacre, and often meeting with Putin in Moscow.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
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Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
More twisted still is the underlying explanation for Maddie’s psychosis, which eventually comes out in therapy, giving Johnston a chance to play the unrepentant screen mom.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
The main villain, meanwhile, is irascibly unrepentant for a very long time.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
But since then, Dodik has refashioned himself as an unrepentant nationalist, denying the genocide of 8,000 Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995, the war’s most notorious massacre, and often meeting with Putin in Moscow.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
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“Unrepentant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unrepentant. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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