UNREFORMED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

unreformed

adjective

Definition of unreformed

as in unrepentant

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Recent Examples of unreformed Over the following months, newspapers printed reports of committee decisions, as well as rumors, accusations, apologies and accounts of crowds that confronted recalcitrant dealers or unreformed drinkers of tea. — Barbara Clark Smith, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024 Jason Childs may be an unreformed Jay LeRette—the preacher minus the jail-cell epiphany, still adrift in a tumult of rages, unhelped by grace. — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023 The frightened priest Don Abbondio remains an unreformed—if somehow sympathetic—coward to the end. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022 But corruption and an unreformed judicial system are very much dashing Moldova's hope. — Cristian Gherasim, CNN, 17 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for unreformed

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The Housewife is certainly at its most potent during those earlier sequences, when Sheridan’s Lelyveld is under the mistaken impression that Hermine Ryan is the unwitting victim rather than the unrepentant perpetrator.

— Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Voldemort, Harry Potter Cruel with no hope of redemption, Harry Potter‘s nemesis (Ralph Fiennes in the films) is an old-school unrepentant, power-hungry, control freak.

— Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of unrepentant

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For her part, having faced such criticism for over four decades, Newkirk remains blissfully impenitent.

— Jan Dutkiewicz, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
Among the various allegations put forward are reports of drugging and fascist group chats, slave labour and foot photograph farms, with the brand’s impenitent founder Stephan Marsan at its centre.

— Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024

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