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incorrigible

/in-kawr-i-juh-buhl, -kor-/US // ɪnˈkɔr ɪ dʒə bəl, -ˈkɒr- //UK // (ɪnˈkɒrɪdʒəbəl) //

无可救药,无可救药的,无可救药的人,不可救药

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
    • : impervious to constraints or punishment; willful; unruly; uncontrollable: an incorrigible child; incorrigible hair.
    • : firmly fixed; not easily changed: an incorrigible habit.
    • : not easily swayed or influenced: an incorrigible optimist.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is incorrigible.

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Examples

  • They began to mistreat us and consider us incorrigible when they realized that this tactic was not working.

  • More than 4,000 feet above sea level, it had been earmarked for incorrigibles—those British officers deemed most likely to escape.

  • Over the years Branson, always an incorrigible self-promoter, has appeared in a series of tailored space-suits to showcase the Galactic concept.

  • But there were also many times when either Palmer or Weaver could have written the other off as an incorrigible pain in the ass.

  • And Anthony Hopkins as Noah's hammy 969-year-old grandpa, Methuselah, who was apparently an incorrigible berry addict.

  • “I gotta tell you, you guys in the press are incorrigible,” the president said.

  • Despite his nebbishy demeanor, the Senate majority leader is an incorrigible junkyard dog.

  • No one wins when the political field is populated exclusively by the incorrigible right and the bemused left.

  • We are trying to digest the riffraff of the world, and can't do it, in spite of such incorrigible optimists as Judge Leslie.

  • On the subject of Malassis, I will tell you that I marvel at his courage, at his activity, and his incorrigible gaiety.

  • He revolted against it, as a thing more provoking, more incorrigible than mere womanhood.

  • He was master, he said, of the lives and property of these incorrigible rebels, and he would do with them as he pleased.

  • Even on his father the incorrigible lad seems on more than one occasion to have tried his little game.