Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an incorrigible manner; irreclaimably.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an incorrigible manner.

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  • adverb In an incorrigible manner.

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Examples

  • As for Business World, it wasn't that the businessmen and businesswomen were immersing themselves in incorrigibly minor or incautiously canonized figures like Thornton Wilder or Dostoevsky, or with lightweight literary middlemen like A.L. Rowse or Lord David Cecil, or yet with teacup-storm philosophers, exploded revisionist historians, stubbornly Steady State cosmologists or pallid poets over whom the finger of sentimentality continued to waver.

    A Different Stripe: 2007

  • As for Business World, it wasn't that the businessmen and businesswomen were immersing themselves in incorrigibly minor or incautiously canonized figures like Thornton Wilder or Dostoevsky, or with lightweight literary middlemen like A.L. Rowse or Lord David Cecil, or yet with teacup-storm philosophers, exploded revisionist historians, stubbornly Steady State cosmologists or pallid poets over whom the finger of sentimentality continued to waver.

    People Reading 2007

  • Though fresh and alert from his overnight flight, Donovan looked “incorrigibly civilian,” Taylor observed.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • When I was growing up, I thought my family was incorrigibly dull there were no divorces, or deaths, or huge family dramas just camping holidays, and chops for dinner, and the sound of lawnmowers on a Sunday.

    A Discussion with Carole Cadwalladr 2010

  • But in the field with his men he appeared “incorrigibly civilian,” as one friend put it, with his uniform “carelessly worn”—as if he wanted to convey the impression that he was an unconventional soldier.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • But in the field with his men he appeared “incorrigibly civilian,” as one friend put it, with his uniform “carelessly worn”—as if he wanted to convey the impression that he was an unconventional soldier.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • During the boom years, egged on by low interest rates, Americans borrowed incorrigibly, usually against higher home values.

    Alan Schram: Why Gold is Rising Alan Schram 2011

  • Some economists believe that oil-rich countries are by definition endemically and incorrigibly corrupt.

    Natalia Brzezinski: Erin Burnett: 'Real Change Can Happen in the Middle East' Natalia Brzezinski 2011

  • During the boom years, egged on by low interest rates, Americans borrowed incorrigibly, usually against higher home values.

    Alan Schram: Why Gold is Rising Alan Schram 2011

  • Though fresh and alert from his overnight flight, Donovan looked “incorrigibly civilian,” Taylor observed.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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  • "My son was just admitted to Princeton" said Haruki incorrigibly. (sorry!)

    February 24, 2007

  • A sepia plate of Greatgrandfather,

    incorrigibly confident Victorian

    (or, rather, blind to the contingency

    of his empyrean empire crumbling)...

    - Peter Reading, Stills, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974

    June 22, 2008