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as in incorrigible
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as in unrighteous
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Recent Examples of unregenerate
This shift won’t only make unregenerate oil producers richer.
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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
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
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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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Who was this alien observer, whose gaze made me into a (slightly) better person, whose gaze (slightly) reduced my incorrigible self-centeredness?—
Michael W. Clune,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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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
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Christ himself suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous one on behalf of the unrighteous.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
8 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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There’s plenty of research to back the diet’s benefits for weight management, elongating your lifespan and reducing your risk of certain chronic illnesses.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Researchers found that people with chronic insomnia (who struggle to sleep at least three nights a week for three months or longer) have faster-declining brain function than their age would suggest.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The inexcusable, evil acts of an individual.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
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He and his followers were locked in a battle with an enemy that was not just ideologically opposed but unwell, possibly evil.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Marioneta, an inveterate ladies’ lady, starts sleeping with Espada (Kerygma Flores), a kind of bullfighter who squares off with cuyes instead of cows.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
17 Aug. 2025
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As Swifties will know, Taylor Swift is an inveterate mom-meeter.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
14 Aug. 2025
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Ladapo said the decision was not reached according to the data, but instead on his view that vaccine mandates are immoral and outside the scope of the government’s authority.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
7 Sep. 2025
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Even the paper’s biggest triumph—which, without giving too much away, brings it into direct conflict with its toilet-paper stablemate—involves a farcically immoral compromise that tramples the church-state divide between news and product sales (and, worse, isn’t all that funny).—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In The Humane Interface, Raskin not only discusses concepts such as leaping and habitual command behaviors but means of quantitative assessment as well.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Reported habitual exposure to violent media was also a risk factor for dangerous behavior around firearms, researchers noted.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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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 15 Sep. 2025.
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