How to Use incorrigible in a Sentence

incorrigible

adjective

• He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible.
• The dog, an incorrigible fence-jumper, was hanging by his red leash over the fence.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
• Soon after, the incorrigible Cole Porter took the naughty song to new heights (or depths).
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
• While the critics wrap their heads around it all, at least the incorrigible Bernie bro in your Facebook feed will have something to keep him warm on the midterm trail.
  — Erika Harwood, Vanities, 18 Jan. 2017
• As last night’s was the first full concert in seven years in the stadium, good behavior was called for, even by a once-incorrigible group as this.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
• Yang’s strategy seems to be one of proud, incorrigible corniness.
  — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
• From the start, Barney was an incorrigible charmer, and Blanche delighted in the attention.
  — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• And so some architects, incorrigible tacklers of problems nobody asked them to solve, have come up with a collection of strategies to help people feel less alone.
  — Curbed, 27 Apr. 2022
• Timberlake is an instinctive and jovial performer—a lovable and incorrigible ham.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• His public persona as a cultural renegade, an incorrigible iconoclast and social rebel hugged the headlines.
  — Sanya Osha, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
• The one major hiccup came with measuring the flow of heat through the planet: the lander’s heat probe couldn’t punch itself into the ground and get operational thanks to some surprisingly incorrigible soil.
  — Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Fletcher would witness another century of broken promises from a country that acts like an incorrigible deadbeat whenever the subject of justice comes up.
  — Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
• The arc traced by Brignac, one of the most incorrigible pedophiles to work in the New Orleans clergy, makes plain why the clerical abuse crisis has been so searing — and so enduring.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Part of the answer is incorrigible and long-standing American opposition to experts and authorities of all kinds.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
• The court ruled that judges need not find juvenile offenders permanently incorrigible before sentencing them to life without parole.
  — Brian McGill, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• Fear of jail time is something that ought to concern most people who might consider participating in some future attack on a government site -- even if hardcore militants are incorrigible.
  — Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 20 July 2021
• There are miniatures for each character, two boards, dual-layered player mats, hundreds of cards (running the gamut from weapons to literal junk), and even an incorrigible dog miniature that serves as the turn marker.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2018
• Republicans who have been incorrigible in their defense of the indefensible are suddenly showing glimmers of self-respect.
  — Paul Thornton, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
• And of course Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was an inveterate and incorrigible liar.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
• Some people think that such juvenile defendants must be found to be incorrigible — or impossible of being reformed — before being sentenced to life without parole.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• Nobody asked me, but a sale of the Broncos to new ownership would give this team a fresh start and better chance to succeed than working under the constant duress of a Bowlen house divided by endless bickering among incorrigible children.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• Neymar is an incorrigible extrovert, a fashion icon and a marketing phenomenon.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• New Yorker contributors have always been an incorrigible group of eavesdroppers.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
• Whoever succeeds Bonin is going to find that the fractured, multi-agency homeless services bureaucracy is an incorrigible beast.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
• One stalks about the room like a criminal imprisoned, unregenerate, incorrigible.
  — Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Brown created one of its most popular characters in Cotton, a devout Christian and incorrigible gossip who worked in the local laundromat and assessed her neighbors with a sharp eye and equally sharp tongue.
  — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
• The same incorrigible optimism could be seen at work in economic projections issued by the Congressional Budget Office late last week.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2020
• By that measure, Kitsch is generally the most fun as the group's incorrigible prankster and ladies' man, whose relationship with Brendan becomes oddly endearing.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
• Capital punishment has a long history, which may even extend to prehistoric times, when early humans sought ways to rid their communities of incorrigible troublemakers.
  — David P. Barash, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2024