unregenerate

adjective

Definition of unregeneratenext
1
as in chronic

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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. — 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unregenerate
  1. chronic
  2. unrighteous
  3. habitual
  4. evil
  5. incorrigible
  6. immoral
  7. unreconstructed
  8. reprobate
Adjective
  • Inflammation along is called tendinitis and can result from chronic overuse.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • Complications followed, including a chronic infection, keeping her tethered to the medical system.
    — Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
Definition of chronic
Adjective
  • Ivey recently described the LGBTQ community as unrighteous in a live stream from his Instagram account.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Definition of unrighteous
Adjective
  • Gold Tables may begin with regular diners, but the larger opportunity is to make restaurant-going feel more habitual, more social and more connected to the OpenTable ecosystem.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • In exchange for the plea, prosecutors pledged to not add a habitual offender enhancement, which could have added another 5-to-20 years to his sentence.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of habitual
Adjective
  • Through Latin and early Christian usage, the word took on its modern sense of an evil supernatural spirit.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • When it was overturned, however, the United States rightly or wrongly became the evil empire to the rest of world soccer.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of evil
Adjective
  • The rigidity and delusions of tyrannies are incorrigible; their purity spirals end in executions, not just cancellations; their adventures end in devastation and slaughter.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Nilsson, an incorrigible Midwesterner, had a history of downplaying her depth.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Definition of incorrigible
Adjective
  • Some rabbinic readings attribute Lot’s hesitation to leave Sodom to his immoral greed and inordinate wealth.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.
    — DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 25 June 2026
Definition of immoral
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
  • The notional heart of Hawkins is Jackson, a town south-east of Atlanta that gave the production a readymade, unreconstructed classic America.
    — James Medd, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Dec. 2025
Definition of unreconstructed
Adjective
  • These immoral legislators are reprobate, fraudulent leeches who need to be removed immediately.
    — Jeff Horseman, Oc Register, 5 May 2026
  • Gasoline is dirty, smelly, toxic, and environmentally reprobate.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2026
Definition of reprobate

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