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corrigible

[kawr-i-juh-buhl, kor-] / ˈkɔr ɪ dʒə bəl, ˈkɒr- /




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These are failures that are entirely corrigible if the job seeker makes the effort to become self-aware and improve his or her odds of success.

From US News Nov. 9, 2015

Patient Mediator For much of his life, Nasser was an in corrigible conspirator, and his enemies were never benign.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a big moment for sports-loving Hannegan too: he had been a three-sport letter man at St. Louis University, an in corrigible baseball fan in Washington and a faithful follower of the football Redskins.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Barbara, covered by the network of sunlight, could not help impatience with a suffering which seemed to her so corrigible by action.

From The Patrician by John Galsworthy

The eloquent criminal expert of Amsterdam, speaking ``on the discretion which should be left to the judge in awarding punishment,'' made a primary distinction between habitual criminals, incorrigible and corrigible, and occasional criminals.

From Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri




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