How to Use incorrigible in a Sentence

incorrigible

adjective

• He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible.
• Soon after, the incorrigible Cole Porter took the naughty song to new heights (or depths).
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• The dog, an incorrigible fence-jumper, was hanging by his red leash over the fence.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
• While the critics wrap their heads around it all, at least the incorrigible Bernie bro in your Facebook feed will have something to keep him warm on the midterm trail.
  — Erika Harwood, Vanities, 18 Jan. 2017
• Then there’s Seattle, where the incorrigible City Council has voted to defund the police for the second year in a row.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2021
• As last night’s was the first full concert in seven years in the stadium, good behavior was called for, even by a once-incorrigible group as this.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
• Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
• From the start, Barney was an incorrigible charmer, and Blanche delighted in the attention.
  — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• The arc traced by Brignac, one of the most incorrigible pedophiles to work in the New Orleans clergy, makes plain why the clerical abuse crisis has been so searing — and so enduring.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• There’s 2-year-old Emma De Santos, an incorrigible thief of neighborhood hydrangeas, who likes wearing a tutu on her head like a wig.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• And so some architects, incorrigible tacklers of problems nobody asked them to solve, have come up with a collection of strategies to help people feel less alone.
  — Curbed, 27 Apr. 2022
• Yang’s strategy seems to be one of proud, incorrigible corniness.
  — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
• The one major hiccup came with measuring the flow of heat through the planet: the lander’s heat probe couldn’t punch itself into the ground and get operational thanks to some surprisingly incorrigible soil.
  — Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Since 2002, the Supreme Court has barred not only the death penalty for juvenile offenders but mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all but the most incorrigible.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
• There are miniatures for each character, two boards, dual-layered player mats, hundreds of cards (running the gamut from weapons to literal junk), and even an incorrigible dog miniature that serves as the turn marker.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2018
• And of course Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was an inveterate and incorrigible liar.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
• The most important one is that Trump is utterly incorrigible.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• Nobody asked me, but a sale of the Broncos to new ownership would give this team a fresh start and better chance to succeed than working under the constant duress of a Bowlen house divided by endless bickering among incorrigible children.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• Creative adults may produce different sorts of work, but most seem to have had in common, as children, a certain incorrigible enthusiasm.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 28 July 2023
• There are those in Paris who will tell you—without any irony whatsoever—that the story of Pierre Bergé is the story of France in the second half of the 20th century: often incorrigible, sometimes truculent, always ascendant.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2017
• By that measure, Kitsch is generally the most fun as the group's incorrigible prankster and ladies' man, whose relationship with Brendan becomes oddly endearing.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
• Reading Sebald in a German context, and knowing his criticism as well as his fiction, yields a different picture: that of an incorrigible provocateur who never let the facts get in the way of a good anti-German polemic.
  — Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• Timberlake is an instinctive and jovial performer—a lovable and incorrigible ham.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• The devilish old codger and said father, Jack (Christopher Plummer), recently ousted from his nursing home for incorrigible weed-dealing.
  — Shana Feste, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Brown created one of its most popular characters in Cotton, a devout Christian and incorrigible gossip who worked in the local laundromat and assessed her neighbors with a sharp eye and equally sharp tongue.
  — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
• His public persona as a cultural renegade, an incorrigible iconoclast and social rebel hugged the headlines.
  — Sanya Osha, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
• Part of the answer is incorrigible and long-standing American opposition to experts and authorities of all kinds.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
• There are people who like part three, with Sean Connery as Indy’s incorrigible adventurer father, even better than the original.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 July 2023
• The same incorrigible optimism could be seen at work in economic projections issued by the Congressional Budget Office late last week.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2020
• The Atlantic risks getting addicted to these yarns because of their popularity among non-Californians, in the same sense that the first taste of human blood has been reputed to turn African lions into incorrigible man-eaters.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024