impenitent

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In Weidman’s novel, the main character, a garment industry climber named Harry Bogen, is an impenitent snake, a moral bottom feeder who knows no bottom.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023

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

The Colombian revolution––her mendacious connivances with Ames––her sinful, impenitent life of gilded vice––aye, the door was now closed against that, absolutely and forever more.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis