INCORRIGIBLE in a Sentence

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1. Though Widow Douglass hoped to reform Huck, Miss Watson called him incorrigible and said he would come to no good end.
2. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCORRIGIBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
incorrigible
 a.  not correctable; difficult or impossible to control or manage
Classic Sentence:
1  We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
2  Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVIII
3  He put it to her as if she had not grasped the consequences of her act; as if her incorrigible ignorance of business were about to precipitate her into a fresh act of folly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  "And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father's conduct," added the incorrigible marquise.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
6  As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
7  You are quite incorrigible, Harry; but I don't mind.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
8  Yes, it is only among us that the most incorrigible rogue can be absolutely and loftily honest at heart without in the least ceasing to be a rogue.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
9  Often, to keep the peace, I must go where life was less lovely; for instance, 'Tildy's mother was incorrigibly dirty, Reuben's larder was limited seriously, and herds of untamed insects wandered over the Eddingses' beds.'
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence:
1  Though Widow Douglass hoped to reform Huck, Miss Watson called him incorrigible and said he would come to no good end.