How to Use incorrigible in a Sentence

incorrigible

adjective
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  • He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible.
  • Soon after, the incorrigible Cole Porter took the naughty song to new heights (or depths).
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The dog, an incorrigible fence-jumper, was hanging by his red leash over the fence.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
  • While the critics wrap their heads around it all, at least the incorrigible Bernie bro in your Facebook feed will have something to keep him warm on the midterm trail.
    — Erika Harwood, Vanities, 18 Jan. 2017
  • As last night’s was the first full concert in seven years in the stadium, good behavior was called for, even by a once-incorrigible group as this.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • From the start, Barney was an incorrigible charmer, and Blanche delighted in the attention.
    — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • The arc traced by Brignac, one of the most incorrigible pedophiles to work in the New Orleans clergy, makes plain why the clerical abuse crisis has been so searing — and so enduring.
    — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • There’s 2-year-old Emma De Santos, an incorrigible thief of neighborhood hydrangeas, who likes wearing a tutu on her head like a wig.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • And so some architects, incorrigible tacklers of problems nobody asked them to solve, have come up with a collection of strategies to help people feel less alone.
    — Curbed, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Yang’s strategy seems to be one of proud, incorrigible corniness.
    — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The one major hiccup came with measuring the flow of heat through the planet: the lander’s heat probe couldn’t punch itself into the ground and get operational thanks to some surprisingly incorrigible soil.
    — Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Since 2002, the Supreme Court has barred not only the death penalty for juvenile offenders but mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all but the most incorrigible.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • There are miniatures for each character, two boards, dual-layered player mats, hundreds of cards (running the gamut from weapons to literal junk), and even an incorrigible dog miniature that serves as the turn marker.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2018
  • And of course Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was an inveterate and incorrigible liar.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Nobody asked me, but a sale of the Broncos to new ownership would give this team a fresh start and better chance to succeed than working under the constant duress of a Bowlen house divided by endless bickering among incorrigible children.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • There are those in Paris who will tell you—without any irony whatsoever—that the story of Pierre Bergé is the story of France in the second half of the 20th century: often incorrigible, sometimes truculent, always ascendant.
    — James McAuley, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2017
  • By that measure, Kitsch is generally the most fun as the group's incorrigible prankster and ladies' man, whose relationship with Brendan becomes oddly endearing.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Reading Sebald in a German context, and knowing his criticism as well as his fiction, yields a different picture: that of an incorrigible provocateur who never let the facts get in the way of a good anti-German polemic.
    — Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • Timberlake is an instinctive and jovial performer—a lovable and incorrigible ham.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • The devilish old codger and said father, Jack (Christopher Plummer), recently ousted from his nursing home for incorrigible weed-dealing.
    — Shana Feste, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • Brown created one of its most popular characters in Cotton, a devout Christian and incorrigible gossip who worked in the local laundromat and assessed her neighbors with a sharp eye and equally sharp tongue.
    — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • His public persona as a cultural renegade, an incorrigible iconoclast and social rebel hugged the headlines.
    — Sanya Osha, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Part of the answer is incorrigible and long-standing American opposition to experts and authorities of all kinds.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The same incorrigible optimism could be seen at work in economic projections issued by the Congressional Budget Office late last week.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The Atlantic risks getting addicted to these yarns because of their popularity among non-Californians, in the same sense that the first taste of human blood has been reputed to turn African lions into incorrigible man-eaters.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • Fletcher would witness another century of broken promises from a country that acts like an incorrigible deadbeat whenever the subject of justice comes up.
    — Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Instead, more than half the film’s running time is devoted to the party itself, where the incorrigible alpha male Lucas dominates the conversation and makes everyone uncomfortable.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Any attempt to break out of the straightjacket of our own incorrigible self-regard will have to take account of one overarching reality, which is America's decline relative to rising powers.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Fear of jail time is something that ought to concern most people who might consider participating in some future attack on a government site -- even if hardcore militants are incorrigible.
    — Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 20 July 2021

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