Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: incorrigible
IPA transcription: [,ɪnk'ɑɹədʒəbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: incorrigible
    Meaning: impervious to correction by punishment
Usage examples
  • Danton at heart was always an incorrigible sceptic.
  • "And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father's conduct," added the incorrigible marquise.
  • We may have a naval war, perhaps, or I may turn out one of those incorrigible madmen who risk their lives in Arctic exploration.
  • I can only give the reader some faint idea of the place, which, they said, was called the fasting room, and here incorrigible offenders fasted until they starved to death.
  • He had received from Smerdyakov that morning an assurance "that she had promised to come without fail." The incorrigible old man's heart throbbed with excitement; he paced up and down his empty rooms listening.
  • We have sometimes tried; but the want of real gratitude which, in them, is associated with such warm and wordy expressions of regard, with their incorrigible habits of falsehood and evasion, have baffled and discouraged us.