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.
  • Not that the storms led to some irredeemable gaffe or unveiled some salacious scandal.
    — Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024
  • This Penguin is a grotesque and irredeemable monster from birth.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Is David an irredeemable monster or a lost soul who deserves his second chance?
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • Conversely, if the Salazar brand is irredeemable, why doesn’t the Swoosh cut him loose?
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 18 May 2021
  • However, none of this means that knotless braids need to be banished to the far-off lands of irredeemable hair heaven.
    — Tayler Adigun, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The pants, khaki chinos ($68), were fine — a little stiff, maybe, but not irredeemable.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • Since, by this point, Nan’s actions seem irredeemable, this is when the big pregnancy news gets revealed.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Small investors were left with a bag of irredeemable, and therefore worthless, digital assets.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • This big band take of a song already teetering on irredeemable absurdity, wants to be lush and seductive.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • This big band take of a song already teetering on irredeemable absurdity, wants to be lush and seductive.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Couples break up for an infinite number of reasons, few of which boil down to one partner’s irredeemable rottenness.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 6 Mar. 2026
  • And females would either be utterly flawed and irredeemable or kind of angelic, and nothing in between.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Nor is there a situation that is irredeemable, an experience that is hopeless.
    — Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Additionally, beer adds great flavor but tends to do so at the expense of clarity, so bad beer cocktails can be irredeemable.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Patterson thinks that unlike the Maryland flag, Georgia’s is irredeemable and should be changed.
    — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Weinstein is unrepentant and irredeemable, which in a way limits his agency over his actions.
    — Elizabeth C. Tippett, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • If America is irredeemable, this thinking goes, then justice demands no less than a complete reboot of the country.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Instead, the now-irredeemable dollar would continue to serve as the global reserve currency.
    — William J. Luther, National Review, 16 Aug. 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
  • Leviticus has the sturdy nerve and conviction to plainly state that sometimes home and family are irredeemable and worth abandoning.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • For some, the country is an irredeemable pariah state, responsive only to harsh punishment and containment.
    — Victoria Nuland, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
  • Want to know why the San Francisco Giants are an irredeemable, unwatchable mess?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 June 2026
  • My Best Friend’s Wedding is dancing right on the edge of making its heroine completely irredeemable.
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2022

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