incorrigible

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Anna Penrhys knew him, and treacherously revealed some of the enemy's secrets, notably concerning what he termed our incorrigible turn for bribery And that means,' my father said, 'that Mr. Hipperdon does not possess the art of talking to the ladies.

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  1. adjective Incapable of being corrected or reformed: an incorrigible criminal.
  2. adjective Firmly rooted; ineradicable: incorrigible faults.
  3. adjective Difficult or impossible to control or manage: an incorrigible, spoiled child.
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  • And so we avoid offending any Larrys of the world by not naming the incorrigible ass we had in mind when we wrote the sentence.
  • Froude's patriotism was incorrigible, and he left the passage as it stood. —  The Life of Froude
  • He maintained that these tiny waifs of six were incorrigible, and were better in institutions than in homes. —  An Autobiography
  • The lady was clearly incorrigible, and he braced himself for the struggle The Rani displayed no penitence when, after much delay, and many complaints as to the unreasonableness of the request, she consented to receive Gerrard, but he detected a trace of alarm in her voice when she referred to Kharrak Singh's treatment of the councillors. —  The Path to Honour
  • Tom--incorrigible Not at all, Ned. —  The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
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  1. Middle English, from Latin incorrigibilis : in-, not; see in-1 + corrigere, to correct; see correct.

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  1. = French incorrigible = Spanish incorregible = Portuguese incorrigivel = Italian incorrigibile, incorreggibile, from Middle Latin incorrigibilis, not corrigible, from in- privative + corrigibilis, corrigible: see corrigible.
 

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