What is "incorrigibles"

Usage examples of "incorrigibles".

They were all incorrigibles, wearing the same heavy chains as Timon, and their bodies were also scarred and abused.

A cruel man, selected to work with the incorrigibles because of his brutality.

Mute menials these incorrigibles are to remain, and they are to be brought to the Place of Public Punishment as often as their Masters and Mistresses will allow, there to suffer for the amusement of the crowd as much as for their own improvement.

Were these the incorrigibles who behaved so badly they had been consigned for a year to the village?

It is our humane way of getting rid of incorrigibles who would otherwise have to be executed.

They were run by the Security Directorate, and used as a sink for serf convicts, the incorrigibles, the sweepings of the labor camps.