I never contradict a lady, ma'am," rejoined the incorrigible captain.
In plain terms, he was an incorrigible scoundrel; and he had now added one more to the list of his many misdemeanors by impudently breaking the conditions on which Mrs. Vanstone had hitherto assisted him.
Vaux behaved a little more civilly after their being stapled down in the condemned hold, but throughout the time of his confinement appeared to be a very obstinate and incorrigible fellow.
Pendennis, sir," he said, "your idleness is incorrigible and your stupidity beyond example.
After repeating his powerful admonitions he released both the animals, determined to give up the dog as incorrigible should he ever repeat the offence,--but he never did.
What a good thing it is that I know exactly how to take this laughing, blarneying, incorrigible Irishman!
If only she hadn't happened ever to meet that incorrigible Jim Burke!
But after all my adventures of this morning what a relief it was to me to see a friend; a man who wasn't a suspicious waiter or an attendant who stared, or a teasing incorrigible who exasperated me from the other side of a telephone!
Defn: One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.
He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading.
But Alan Massey had an incorrigiblebelief in his luck.
It was a sickening transaction but it relieved his mind considerably and catered in a measure to that incorrigible hope within him.
It was throwing away his one chance; it was foppery on the scaffold--an incorrigible affectation or a relentless purpose.
The lean parchment visage had the hunted look of the incorrigible failure, had written on it self-indulgence, cunning, and uncertainty.
Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity.
Whigs plotted to expel the incorrigible dynasty, their aspirations went no farther than a Venetian oligarchy, with Monmouth for Doge.
No propositions are simpler or more comprehensive than the two, that anincorrigible misbeliever ought to burn, or that the man who burns him ought to hang.
No doubt there is CRAFT of some description IN THE WIND," pursued the incorrigible Middlemore, with the same affected unconsciousness; "and that may account for poor Raymond being BLOWN here.
Yes," interrupted the incorrigible Middlemore, as he cracked a hickory nut, "and the balls reserved for us this season will also carry with them the coup de grass.
It began life in 1812, at which time the thieving and incorrigible Kafirs were driven across the Great Fish River--then the colonial boundary--by a strong force of British and Burgher troops under Colonel Graham.
This naturally tries the temper of high-spirited mistresses--as does also the incorrigible carelessness of some servants.
Upon every hand incorrigible woman, with a big W, arose to irritate and torment the conservatives of the world.
In the next session they secured the Curfew Law and an appropriation for the State Home for Incorrigible Girls.
Then, an incorrigible vagabond, he broke his exile and came again to Paris.
And now the incorrigible Dreamer was possessed by these things.
The great and pressing subject of the time was the increasing difficulties of the revenue, created partly by the inevitable changes of a growing state, but much more by the King's incorrigible wastefulness.
Can you not, in case of necessity, even swear that I have no tendencies toward socialism, but on the contrary am an incorrigible aristocrat, for which you have often reproached me?
Our captain was enough to make any ship a hell; and our ship's company were composed of a mutinous and incorrigible set of scoundrels, with, of course, a few exceptions.
That man is incorrigible with his confounded nonsense," observed the captain to the first lieutenant.
For of all fools the most incorrigible is surely the conventional critic who judges literary wares not by their intrinsic merit or demerit, but by the periodical in which they first saw the light.
Through this door marched the incorrigible intruder--the sentry from the summit having just issued therefrom, fearful lest the castle should tumble about his ears.
You are the most teasing, captious, incorrigible lover!
Your father, sir, is gravely compromised by his connection with incorrigible revolutionists; but I will consider your application.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incorrigible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
