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- adjective Not
redeemable ;irredeemable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective insusceptible of reform
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Examples
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Loan servicers, firms that collect payments and handle foreclosures, seem to have "nearly exhausted the supply of plausible candidates for loan modifications" and will find that many loans are "unredeemable," the S
Abnormal Returns Now 2010
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Not sure that I could stomach that unredeemable ugliness.
Father Ralph and Humbert Humbert « Tales from the Reading Room 2010
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He can't be too angsty, too cruel, too unredeemable.
NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin Nalini Singh 2009
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Unless the Cheneybot starts chucking GOPer Senators down wells, I'm sticking with "Darth Vader" being a poor analogy ... because this mockery of a man truly is unredeemable.
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Mireau and Broulard may be unredeemable, but ordinary soldiers, even after the brutality of the trenches, can be human again.
A Great Film's Sadly Timeless Message David Mermelstein 2011
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If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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Just as often, betrayed partners need moral confirmation, viewing themselves as the victims and their partners as perpetrators, if not unredeemable villains.
Esther Perel: An Affair To Remember: What Happens In Couples After Someone Cheats? Part One Esther Perel 2010
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And so for all that Lolita may be the literary classic, and proud of its pedigree, my vote so far goes to The Thorn Birds, a supposedly trashy family saga that never descends into unredeemable ugliness.
Father Ralph and Humbert Humbert « Tales from the Reading Room 2010
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It hits on one of those stories that I love — the unredeemable protagonist who must be redeemed.
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Both have a lot of fairly unredeemable sex and violence, used to indicate a kind of primal concern with survival in a harsh world.
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