incorrigibility
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Some were held on loitering charges, while others were detained over their perceived "incorrigibility."
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
And in Montgomery, Kavanaugh wrote, "the Court flatly stated that 'Miller did not impose a formal fact-finding requirement' and added that 'a finding of fact regarding a child's incorrigibility . . . is not required.' "
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2021
Could a state, Chief Justice John Roberts asked, just tell a judge: “Here are the things you need to consider, and transient youth or incorrigibility is one of them?”
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2019
A bunch of them were sent there for offenses they’d never heard of: malingering, mopery, incorrigibility.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
Emigrés, the: incorrigibility of; ingratitude to Napoleon; their foolish expectations; efforts to cause restoration of lands formerly theirs.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
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