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incorrigible
unable to be corrected, improved, or reformed
Synonyms
- unreformable
- intractable
- incurable
Antonyms
- reformable
- correctable
- manageable
incorrigible in a sentence
The incorrigible prankster ignored every warning from the dean.
Years of discipline failed to reform the incorrigible thief.
Where it comes from
From Latin incorrigibilis, meaning 'not able to be corrected.'
Memory hook
IN + CORRIGIBLE means not correctable: an incorrigible habit resists reform.
Read it in context
- The Marker on the Slope Narrative
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