unregenerate

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Recent Examples of unregenerate This shift won’t only make unregenerate oil producers richer. Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021 One stalks about the room like a criminal imprisoned, unregenerate, incorrigible. Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021 An actress, artist and, in an earlier life, unregenerate gadabout, Ms. Subkoff seemed intent on presenting the world with a shiny, self-assured and elegantly gift-wrapped version of herself. New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unregenerate
Adjective
  • Assembly Bill 2321, introduced by Assemblymember Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, follows a critical state audit and years of chronic understaffing at the agency’s Bureau of Investigation.
    Joe Rubin April 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Exercise also reduces chronic inflammation in the brain, which hinders its ability to repair itself, Oye-Somefun said.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Ancient sacred writings teach us to avoid using unrighteous means to oppose the unrighteous demands of wicked rulers.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Spears writes of these unrighteous men matter-of-factly, avoiding the ad hominem attack, except for an occasional delicious arrow, including a recollection of the eternally white Timberlake meeting one of his rap heroes.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
Adjective
  • Green is being charged as a fourth-offense habitual offender.
    Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • As someone whose TikTok is algorithmically tuned to feed her Broadway interviews, curtain calls, and stage-door encounters, as well as a habitual lurker of the Just in Time Facebook group, Benjamin was familiar with the dance.
    Alexandra Starr, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Besides, anyone who doesn’t agree with the left is said to be evil, so anything progressives do to destroy, or at least restrain that evil, is justified.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Fifteen years later, her sister Merry faces her family’s dark past with a journalist uncovering the nature of the evil force that undid them.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Daisy’s strategy with Mike has always been to treat him like a misbehaved child, which works insofar as scolding an incorrigible child does.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • To do so is to be tacitly complicit in what these companies know to be wrong, unethical and immoral.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Lawyers for the church argue that Morris’ agreements with the church preclude him from those benefits if he was fired or resigned because of immoral behavior.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The liveliest glimpses of life seemed wedged between the old, unreconstructed city and the shinier, up-and-coming version.
    John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Thanks to Musk’s removal of most of the policies that had prevented extremists from dominating the site, and to the noxiousness of Grok, unreconstructed Nazism runs rampant on the platform.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Logan has just told Frank that, after 35 years of service, he’s being pushed into a secondary role, in part because Logan is considering which of his reprobate children will be taking over his corporate empire.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • To many of them, killing someone with such a reprobate mind was justifiable by God’s laws.
    Time, Time, 7 Nov. 2022

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“Unregenerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unregenerate. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.

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