corrigible

Example Sentences

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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

Certes your vulnerable back is sore   And tender, too, your corrigible crown.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

As all this is corrigible by reducing home life and domestic sentiment to something like reasonable proportions in the life of the individual, the danger of it does not lie in human nature.

From Getting Married by Shaw, Bernard