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impenitent

[im-pen-i-tuhnt] / ɪmˈpɛn ɪ tənt /
ADJECTIVE
unrepentant
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In Gainsborough’s painting Germain looks imperious and impenitent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

In Maxwell’s impenitent gaze, we could see the broader audacity of the Epstein affair.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 16, 2019

But her new employer, Politico Europe, was keen to appoint an impenitent to fire warning shots across the commission’s bow.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2015

“I declare myself an impenitent believer in the power of preaching,” he told an evangelical group in New York in 2006, by then a frail and stooped figure walking with a cane.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2011

In still another case two impenitent sick persons refused to be baptized.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Antonio Alvarez de Abreu


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