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irreclaimable

/ir-i-kley-muh-buhl/US // ˌɪr ɪˈkleɪ mə bəl //UK // (ˌɪrɪˈkleɪməbəl) //

无可追索,无可追索的,不可追索,不可追索的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : incapable of being reclaimed or rehabilitated: an irreclaimable swamp; irreclaimable offenders.

Examples

  • But I am an irreclaimable wanderer, and it is some time since I have been home.

  • It is not his business to reform bad artists, who are probably quite irreclaimable.

  • And the great majority of them, I fear, are even more irreclaimable than their comrades in other communities.

  • Evil surroundings weigh more in producing criminals than heredity, and their children are not irreclaimable.

  • Their irregular shape also condemns them for the most part with the many admirable but irreclaimable crooked rugs.