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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Those who are convinced they’re trapped stay helpless and hopeless.—
Amy Morin,
CNBC,
12 June 2025
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In a world where the powerful increasingly act with impunity, taking fictional villains to task makes sense, a form of Hollywood wish fulfillment for those who feel stuck or hopeless.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 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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In April, the actor told PEOPLE exclusively that he'd been diagnosed with the incurable disease.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
16 June 2025
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal dust, following a federal judge’s order Tuesday.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
14 May 2025
Noun
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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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If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Incorrigible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incorrigible. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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