How to Use incorrigible in a Sentence

incorrigible

adjective
  • He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible.
  • The dog, an incorrigible fence-jumper, was hanging by his red leash over the fence.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Soon after, the incorrigible Cole Porter took the naughty song to new heights (or depths).
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Yang’s strategy seems to be one of proud, incorrigible corniness.
    — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 1 Apr. 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
  • Onstage, Madigan presents herself as an incorrigible life-of the-party type.
    — John Roy, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The most important one is that Trump is utterly incorrigible.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Timberlake is an instinctive and jovial performer—a lovable and incorrigible ham.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • From the start, Barney was an incorrigible charmer, and Blanche delighted in the attention.
    — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • Believe it or not, despite name changes, there are still several religious institutions where incorrigible youth can be sent when parents have reached the end of their rope.
    — Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • His public persona as a cultural renegade, an incorrigible iconoclast and social rebel hugged the headlines.
    — Sanya Osha, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The response was perfectly Lil Nas X—incorrigible, lovable, and a little sad.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Having to spend three hours being poked and prodded and prevented from making phone calls rankled; Diamandis is an incorrigible multitasker.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The court ruled that judges need not find juvenile offenders permanently incorrigible before sentencing them to life without parole.
    — Brian McGill, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • And of course Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was an inveterate and incorrigible liar.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Some people think that such juvenile defendants must be found to be incorrigible — or impossible of being reformed — before being sentenced to life without parole.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • Fear of jail time is something that ought to concern most people who might consider participating in some future attack on a government site -- even if hardcore militants are incorrigible.
    — Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • 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
  • Whoever succeeds Bonin is going to find that the fractured, multi-agency homeless services bureaucracy is an incorrigible beast.
    — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 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

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