incorrigible

Example Sentences

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As an incorrigible collector of classical music recordings for 30 years, I confess I have never thought of the National Symphony Orchestra’s appearance on an album cover a reason to buy it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Higher up on the island, outside the three-story cellhouse where some of the nation’s most incorrigible prisoners were once locked away in primitive cells, 10-year-old Melody Garcia, visiting with family from Concord, appeared equally perplexed.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

Having signed a bipartisan package of bills, Newsom will ask voters to approve billions of dollars aimed at alleviating California’s seemingly incorrigible homelessness crisis.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

There’s that insulin analogy again, she’s nothing if not incorrigible, that Marie.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2023

The horse had proved fairly useful as a stakes horse, but he was an incorrigible rogue at the starting gate.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand