incorrigibly

Examples

• All

• She is incorrigibly late, always arriving after the start of every meeting.

• I have an incorrigibly bad habit.

  Blog text (23)

• I'm incorrigibly irreverent about all sorts of serious things, like sex or Socialism.

  Basement Jack (2010)

• He is incorrigibly corrupt.

  Tender Is the Night (1962)

• I wouldn't want to do anything else. "That's what is sad," she said, with a little sigh, like a schoolteacher confronted once again by a promising but incorrigibly lazy student.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Those Victorians, exemplified by the founders of Toynbee Hall and Hull House, were avowedly, unashamedly, incorrigibly moralists.

  Academic text (1990)

• Despite many attempts to change his behavior, he remained incorrigibly rude to everyone he met.

• His incorrigibly stubborn attitude made it impossible for him to accept any advice.

Synonyms

I

irrevocably

vsincorrigibly

16 7.7

So that something cannot be changed or undone

highlights inability to be reformed or improved in behaviour

I

irreparably

vsincorrigibly

9 7.5

In a way you cannot fix or make right

applies to faults that cannot be reformed or corrected

I

irretrievably

vsincorrigibly

5 8.1

In a way that cannot be changed back

is about being impossible to change in character or behavior

I

irredeemably

vsincorrigibly

3 7.5

In a way that you can never change or fix

is about being beyond moral or behavioral repair

I

irremediably

vsincorrigibly

1 8.4

In a way that cannot be fixed

focuses on faults that cannot be reformed or improved

I

irrecoverably

vsincorrigibly

1 8.8

In a way that cannot be given back or fixed

focuses on inability to be corrected or reformed in conduct

U

unredeemably

vsincorrigibly

9.6

In a way nothing can save or make better

refers to behavior that cannot be corrected or reformed

I

inalterably

vsincorrigibly

7.8

In a way that cannot be changed

refers specifically to being impossible to correct or reform behaviour

I

ineradicably

vsincorrigibly

8.6

In a way that you cannot remove

concerns faults that cannot be corrected or changed in character

How Correctable

willingly

119 1.9

reluctantly

80 3.7

stubbornly

27 3.7

incorrigibly

1 9.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology