What is "incorrigible"

Usage examples of "incorrigible".

The appearance of an affair of justice was unfortunate for the progress of the ceremonies, Peterchen having some such relish for the punishment of rogues, and more especially for such as seemed to be an eternal reproach to the action of the Bernese system by their incorrigible misery and poverty, as an old coachman is proverbially said to retain for the crack of the whip.

The most incorrigible of these men were given the task of rasping brazilwood, sawing it down to extract the reddish dye.

But we learned that even dogs that appeared incorrigible could often be reformed.

I said I would not sign a death certificate for one of our veteran dogs unless, after an extensive detraining program, the dog had proven incorrigible and a danger to civilian society.

Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.

Domination, this display would have been considered disgraceful even for convicts on their way to the prison-mines of the Ituri jungles or the saltworks of Kashgar, the last sink-holes for incorrigibles.

When I say that every State prison is to be a reformatory, I except, of course, from its operation, those sentenced for life for murder, or other capital offenses, and those who have proved themselves incorrigible by repeated violations of their parole.

He is an incorrigible scamp born to Spring Fragrance in the Yangzhou whorehouse, Vernal Delights.

The knuckle-dragging bampot was hardly the scholarly type, but had evidently been a keen student of local history, and of that subject's incorrigible tendency to repeat itself.

Neither in the Scriptures nor in nature could the least justification for any of these absurd ideas be foundso Belam and the other Defenders had argued, indefatigably but fruitlessly trying to change Onadroig's mind during the seven years' imprisonment that had preceded his burning as an incorrigible heretic.

To them, the city was like an incorrigible kid who raised your blood pressure to dangerous heights but was in the long run bighearted enough to be worth all of the effort.

Henry knew Timothy to be an incorrigible: thief, adulterer, liar, deceptor, vagrant and a dozen other char­acterizations, each repugnant to a proper household.

Tsion taught that part of the popu lation decimation might be God's way of removing his most incorrigible enemies in anticipation of the coming epic battle.

Tsion taught that part of the population decimation might be God's way of removing his most incorrigible enemies in anticipation of the coming epic battle.

And by that time he was spun around with his back to the wall between the two windows, temporarily safe from any more careless exposure, and looking at Madeline Gray's white face with a quite incorrigible silent laughter in his eyes.