as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incorrigible criminal who should spend the rest of his life behind bars
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Recent Examples of incorrigible
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Onstage, Madigan presents herself as an incorrigible life-of the-party type.
—John Roy, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight.
—Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.
—airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Mahler-Werfel was described as an incorrigible antisemite who enslaved Jewish men and drove them to early graves.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Onstage, Madigan presents herself as an incorrigible life-of the-party type.
—John Roy, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight.
—Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.
—airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incorrigible
Adjective
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In a time when the suffering and seemingly hopeless prospects of America’s poor are known to all who have eyes to see, the only fig leaf available to hide the obscenity of this bill is the old partisan charge of waste, fraud and abuse.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Valentine, Texas, stamps 10,000+ love letters each year For more than three decades, the small-town Valentine Post Office — also known as the Love Station — has processed thousands of love letters from hopeless romantics around the world.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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After 90 days of nonpayment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus, which use the information to recalculate the borrower’s score.—
Cora Lewis,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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Giancana had risen from a juvenile delinquent to the Outfit’s upper echelon.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2025
Adjective
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Finally, after more than a month of agony, her allergist diagnosed her with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) — an incurable condition marked by hives that last six weeks or longer, with no definitive cause or trigger.—
Diane Herbst,
People.com,
11 July 2025
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Due to the contagious nature of the incurable disease, when it's detected, standard practice is to humanely kill all affected and exposed poultry.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The fight almost bankrupts the town of Shelby, Montana, which borrowed heavily to stage it. 1930 — Helen Wills Moody wins her fourth straight singles title at Wimbledon with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Elizabeth Ryan.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 July 2025
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The expectation is set early in the series, when an alderman who tries to swindle George bankrupts himself in the process, then kills himself in shame.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
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“Incorrigible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incorrigible. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.
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