How to Use irredeemable in a Sentence
irredeemable
adjective- She does not believe that anyone is completely irredeemable.
- Without intervention, the country could fall into irredeemable chaos.
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Conversely, if the Salazar brand is irredeemable, why doesn’t the Swoosh cut him loose?
— Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 18 May 2021 -
Was the film that Zack Snyder set out to make irredeemable?
— Max Cea, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021 -
To be irredeemable is surely to be special, a lone wolf.
— Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 1 July 2019 -
What if Gotham is irredeemable and Batman is even worse?
— Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017 -
Does this sort of shape-shifting make D.C. an irredeemable swamp town?
— Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017 -
A: Your boyfriends are irresistible, and your gay friends are irredeemable.
— Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 28 June 2017 -
This Penguin is a grotesque and irredeemable monster from birth.
— Scott Meslow, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018 -
This might be a good thing for the sodium-averse and easily rectified for the rest of us, but the texture was irredeemable.
— Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2022 -
The pants, khaki chinos ($68), were fine — a little stiff, maybe, but not irredeemable.
— Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 24 May 2017 -
There’s this odd dichotomy of how the world sees trans people: either miserable and irredeemable, or as the butt of the joke.
— Jaz Joyner, Teen Vogue, 10 Aug. 2017 -
What if some viewer somewhere watched the bit and decided that Spicer is not an irredeemable sack of poo after all?
— Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017 -
Is David an irredeemable monster or a lost soul who deserves his second chance?
— Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021 -
It’s this sense of irredeemable loss and long-echoing emptiness, of course, that inspired George and Martha to engage in the sad fantasy of rearing a son.
— Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 12 May 2022 -
Patterson thinks that unlike the Maryland flag, Georgia’s is irredeemable and should be changed.
— Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023 -
It’s the fact that this seemingly irredeemable character, David, could come around to finding his own humanity, and that the epiphany still might not be enough to save him.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2021 -
The ’80s have long been regarded as a period of unabashed, and at times irredeemable, egotism and excess.
— Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2017 -
My Best Friend’s Wedding is dancing right on the edge of making its heroine completely irredeemable.
— Scott Meslow, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2022 -
This lack of awareness about how Black people process pain, especially in front of White people, reflects an irredeemable flaw of de Visé’s book.
— Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021 -
At Ware — the detention center, school and several group homes surrounded by 125 acres of forest — Shakira found a place that seemed to view her as irredeemable.
— Rachel Lauren Mueller, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022 -
At Facebook, Zuckerberg’s mistakes don’t make him, or the company, irredeemable, Haugen said towards the end of her panel.
— Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2021 -
Small investors were left with a bag of irredeemable, and therefore worthless, digital assets.
— Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023 -
But if empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, why was I left with the idea of my own body as an irredeemable monstrosity?
— Beth Younger, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023 -
But this is only the latest in a string of irredeemable actions and behaviors Trump has shown toward women journalists.
— Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 26 Oct. 2020 -
Germany's Weimar Republic was filled with groups making quite similar arguments and claims about the irredeemable decadence of the present order of things.
— Damon Linker, The Week, 15 July 2021 -
One such diatribe is her criticism of straight men in musical theater and how 80% of them are irredeemable humans.
— David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2020 -
Yet there are way too many endearing acts and instances of real solicitude to dismiss him as an irredeemable jerk.
— Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2019 -
Isle de Jean Charles was forsaken as irredeemable, counted among the first sacrifices of sovereign land that the U.S. government would make to climate change.
— Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Lack of literacy leads to poor, often irredeemable mistakes.
— Steve Parrish, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
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