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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unrepentant
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unrepentant racist
▪ Even after the rape conviction, Thayer remained unrepentant.
▪ Many consider the general an unrepentant and brutal tyrant.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He appeared unrepentant and impassioned in favour of us developing our nuclear muscle - for defence.
▪ Irvin, consistent with his usual public stance, was unrepentant.
▪ Mummy and Daddy back in Melbourne wouldn't be delighted, but Kylie was unrepentant when she eventually surfaced.
▪ Pitsligo died there in 1767, head, much to his surprise, still firmly attached to his unrepentant shoulders.
▪ She lied all the time, storming her house like an unrepentant sinner.
▪ We were no longer a pair of unrepentant felons griping about the minimal return yielded by our criminal enterprise.
▪ Yet, even as this crisis came to a head, the bishops remained unrepentant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unrepentant

late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + repentant (adj.).

Wiktionary
unrepentant

a. Feeling or showing no (l en sorrow) for (l en wrongdoing).

WordNet
unrepentant

  1. adj. not penitent or remorseful [syn: impenitent, unremorseful] [ant: penitent, penitent]

  2. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [syn: cussed, obdurate, obstinate]

Usage examples of "unrepentant".

Karaman, having finished a feeble lecture to an unrepentant Potro, sat on the other side of Vindax.

To drag from Heaven an unrepentant soul Which might have quenched in reconciling prayers A life of burning crimes.

Bancroft-Farrell divorce remain undivulged, but a spokesman for the Belleville police department said that they are confident that Spyzhalski, who they describe as flamboyant and unrepentant, will provide them .

Should I of these the liberty regard, Who, freed, as to their ancient patrimony, Unhumbled, unrepentant, unreformed, Headlong would follow, and to their gods perhaps 430 Of Bethel and of Dan?

Hawaii, that we will never smell again without remembering Hawaii, the Hawaii of our unrepentant unrepented youth, for the rest of our whole lives.

They only grinned back at her, at least as unrepentant as young Honor.

One had the grace to look shamed, but the other two were the worse for drink and unrepentant.

Both men groaned, clutched at their silver torcs, and subsided like a pair of whipped schoolboys, silent but unrepentant.

In all that time Pomfrette came and went through Pontiac, shunned and unrepentant.

The house was not large, and far from fashionable-it was all above ground, its walls as white as the chalkiest aspects of the cliff face, its angles stubbornly square, its windows unrepentant panes of plain glass-but that was exactly why he liked it.

F'lessan's grin might have been a trifle off-center as Keita changed dressings to reassure herself that no stitches had broken, but he remained unrepentant.

He glared, and an unrepentant Manfred glared back, then dropped his eyes and closed his hands around his head, looking very much the worse for wear.

Publishers used to do it with a great show of indignation, purely out of a sense of duty to make available a historical document, then little by little they stopped apologizing and reprinted it with unrepentant pleasure.

Now that she had time to think over her own tragedy, she was unrepentant.

They whisper the names of their attackers, those men and women who still walk the earth, unidentified, unaccused, unpunished, unrepentant.