irredeemable

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Any one hearing her then must have put her down as utterly unredeemed and irredeemable, a harridan to bandy foul language with a cabman, or to outvie a street-urchin bumped against by a rival in the newspaper trade.

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  1. adjective That cannot be bought back or paid off: an irredeemable annuity.
  2. adjective Not convertible into coin.
  3. adjective Impossible to remedy: irredeemable losses.

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  • Holding irredeemable or long dated debt hybrid is now very risky in our opinion as most banks will be much smaller, possibly going into run off, and certainly with lower earnings power than before. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • I'm here in print every week talking about loving socially-irredeemable crap ranging from Mack Bolan novels to the Filmation Aquaman cartoons to Marvel's 70's —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Robert Spencer and various Fox New pundits come to mind -- insinuated or trumpeted that Muslim civilization was irredeemable, even while the president that they supported claimed that his invasion of Iraq would benefit Muslims. —  PD Line
  • Tumbling Woman, and as he transformed a woman tumbling on the floor into a woman tumbling through eternity, he succeeded in transfiguring the very local horror of the jumpers into something universal -- in redeeming an image many regarded as irredeemable. —  doggdot.us
  • (McKellar, who envisioned a similar scenario in his own film, casts himself as an irredeemable sleazebag.) —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. from in- + redeemable. Cf. Old French irredimible = Spanish irredimible = Portuguese irredimivel = Italian irredimibile.
 

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/ɪrəˈdiməbl/
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