as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incorrigible criminal who should spend the rest of his life behind bars
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as in delinquent
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Recent Examples of incorrigible
Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.
—airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
So if Vegas is the accomplished old sibling that everyone wants to be like, and Utah is the incorrigible youngster doing it its own way, that would make the Kraken the middle child of the group.
—Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
Trump’s parents shipped their incorrigible second son off to military school 90 minutes outside New York City just after his 13th birthday.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
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Adjective
For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight.
—Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.
—airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
So if Vegas is the accomplished old sibling that everyone wants to be like, and Utah is the incorrigible youngster doing it its own way, that would make the Kraken the middle child of the group.
—Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
Trump’s parents shipped their incorrigible second son off to military school 90 minutes outside New York City just after his 13th birthday.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incorrigible
Adjective
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No team in the last four decades has faced a situation anywhere close to this hopeless, and that’s with Donald Sterling owning a team in three of them.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Todd took a hopeless situation of endless online applications and transformed it into one of the best decisions of his life.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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He was charged the same day a grand jury indicted Tyler Tyrone Hollins, 20, of Lauderdale Lakes, on charges of first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a delinquent, court records show.—
Shira Moolten,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
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He was also indicted for possession of a firearm by a delinquent.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But after bouts of food poisoning on her vacation, she was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Her uncle was diagnosed with an incurable cancer, though he's been able to manage it by overhauling his diet in conjunction with regular chemotherapy rounds.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This 24-hour dive near Uptown is for true degenerates looking to extend the party to unholy hours.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2025
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At another point, a surface-to-air missile takes out a passenger airliner, something that really happened — but the attack is as purposeless here as the tragic original event, other than to remind us that Valet, who surveys the wreckage for valuables, is a degenerate.—
Boris Fishman,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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The fund filed a petition for composition with creditors in February 2018, which was revoked in June 2018 by the Florence court, which declared Malo bankrupt.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Incorrigible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incorrigible. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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