incorrigibly

incorrigible | American Dictionary

incorrigible
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪnˈkɔr·ɪ·dʒə·bəl, -ˈkɑr-/
(of people and their behavior) impossible to improve or correct:
an incorrigible liar

Examples of incorrigible

incorrigible
With recidivism often seen as one of the signs of the ' incorrigible ', petty property offenders were thus particularly vulnerable to be singled out.
The singers prove variously incorrigible, and the control room has to accept less than adequate performances from them, which are emended through electronic intervention.
In addition, a number of articles raised the spectre of the ' incorrigible ' prisoner.
Many prison officials agreed that, as long as security confinement had not become law, ' incorrigible ' inmates should at least be excluded from most benefits.
The centre asked the provinces to take back their prisoners, starting with the ill, infirm and incorrigible.
By contrast, ' incorrigible habitual criminals ' had to be isolated indefinitely, in most cases until their death.
The classification as an ' incorrigible ' could not only influence the treatment of prisoners during their sentence.
We expect that participants who are labeled as incorrigible will be particularly involved in authority conflict behaviors.
However, the number of incorrigible boys was only 10, so conclusions are tentative.
Officials would be, collectively at least, incorrigible on the meaning of precedent; yet they are not.
Those prisoners regarded as ' incorrigible ' often faced the harsh conditions on stage one during their entire sentence.
Thus, from 1933, measures against ' incorrigible ' prisoners went hand in hand with the stricter treatment of all inmates, while the call for the rehabilitation of ' reformable ' prisoners was largely ignored.
As we had expected, victims who were also incorrigible were all involved in authority conflict behavior, with all of them reaching the highest step of authority avoidance.
Viernstein claimed in 1930 in several high profile lectures that half of all inmates were ' incorrigible ', mostly on hereditary grounds.
War service might be invoked in the courts as a reason either for condemning further the apparently incorrigible or for giving a chance to the penitent.
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