irradicable

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What Gewen focuses on, and excels at, is the story of how the rise of gangster dictators left an irradicable impression on the Jewish intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany before World War II. These men and women — Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Hans Morgenthau and Kissinger — bent their brilliant minds toward the questions raised by the century’s savagery.

From New York Times

It was as though the pet names, the diminutives, were no longer suitable for a teen-aged girl who bore on her forehead a great scar, irradicable evidence of the kind of courage rarely displayed by a grownup.

From Literature

Shun, then, as you would the introduction into your physical system of an insidious but irradicable poison, "The first slight swerving of the heart, That words are powerless to express!"

From Project Gutenberg

Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society," but it was done with a propriety which was edifying to behold.

From Project Gutenberg

The desire for power over fellow-beings, for opportunities to control their lives and exploit their labour, is apparently irradicable.

From Project Gutenberg