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as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
unredeemable sinners
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as in irreversible
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
misspelling the name of the store on the sign was hardly an unredeemable error—you can paint over your mistake
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Recent Examples of unredeemable
Our Western inheritance, then: the concept of the deep underground as wasteland, dump, terminus of the unredeemable.
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
The society of Iverson’s youth rendered him an unredeemable thug and jailed him for it as a minor.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
These are characters that sometimes may seem unredeemable.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Reynolds portrays Clint Briggs, a supposedly unredeemable business consultant who has his world turned upside down by the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Ferrell.
—Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
The most unlikable among them aren’t totally unredeemable.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
Her dad was unredeemable.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
What is left is a closer feeling of closeness to his characters — to ugly, sorrowing, tender, stalwart, ruined, unredeemable people, failing at their lives and yet trying, still, to live them.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Alongside health concerns, steering committee member Alicia Kendrick said that she and other residents are frustrated at how quickly some communities, like Joppa, are thought of as unredeemable.
—Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
The society of Iverson’s youth rendered him an unredeemable thug and jailed him for it as a minor.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
These are characters that sometimes may seem unredeemable.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Reynolds portrays Clint Briggs, a supposedly unredeemable business consultant who has his world turned upside down by the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Ferrell.
—Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
The most unlikable among them aren’t totally unredeemable.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
Her dad was unredeemable.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
What is left is a closer feeling of closeness to his characters — to ugly, sorrowing, tender, stalwart, ruined, unredeemable people, failing at their lives and yet trying, still, to live them.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Alongside health concerns, steering committee member Alicia Kendrick said that she and other residents are frustrated at how quickly some communities, like Joppa, are thought of as unredeemable.
—Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unredeemable
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Near the end of the movie, there’s a heavy sense of dread—everyone feels hopeless, and exhausted.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Here is the regular guy who loves shooting hoops, who is hopeless with a hammer, who loves a self-deprecating story about walking into a glass wall or almost falling off a ladder, and whose wife, Lori, is always, always right.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Experts believe misinformation is leading to this decline but strongly recommend vitamin K shots to prevent irreversible harm.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
27 Jan. 2026
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Forced to make a restrained but irreversible decision, the film observes a man whose inner truth remains elusive, caught between devotion, dignity and loss.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Leviticus has the sturdy nerve and conviction to plainly state that sometimes home and family are irredeemable and worth abandoning.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Given the main character’s irredeemable personality traits and offensive humor, Sedaris doesn’t think Jerri would fit into today’s landscape.—
Jack Irvin,
PEOPLE,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Difficulty working through conflict with those close to us can cause irreparable harm to families and relationships.—
Richard Balkin,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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The reputational loss that the United States has suffered is consequential, and possibly irreparable in the next decade or so.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In the psychological horror story, ambitious young psychiatrist Parker attempts to make a name for himself by treating Josephine Todd (Berry), the famously incurable patient at his hospital.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2026
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Among them included a young girl who was diagnosed with a deadly and incurable glioblastoma at only 9 years old.—
Isabella Backman,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But the Coop had one thing that failed cooperatives didn’t: Joe Holtz, a gregarious 22-year-old from Sheepshead Bay with a mind for numbers and an incorrigible idealism.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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