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

His discomfiture was the more complete since he felt that his defeat was owing to some mistake in his methods, and not the incorrigibility of his subject.

From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret