What's the difference between impenitent and unrepentant?

Impenitent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart.
  • (n.) One who is not penitent.

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Unrepentant


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
  • (2) But under his presidency, the gap between rich and poor and black and white grew; Guantánamo is still open; the financial system that caused the crash remains intact and unrepentant; poverty, corporate profits, deportations and whistleblower convictions are up.
  • (3) An unrepentant admirer of the military junta in power until 1974, Michaloliakos, who founded Golden Dawn in the early 1980s, stands accused of running a paramilitary operation that systematically attacked migrants, leftists and gay people.
  • (4) The unrepentant immigration minister, James Brokenshire, was defending in public for the first time the decision taken by the home secretary, Theresa May, to refuse to support future search and rescue operations of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rickety unseaworthy boats.
  • (5) In 2009 an unrepentant Donaldson predicted 65,000 more deaths from swine flu .
  • (6) Marianne magazine called him a "fossil of the 60s and 70s", but Badiou is unrepentant.
  • (7) But the incident had profoundly disgusted him and the unrepentant actions of the security forces, combined with the indifference of the Indian media, had convinced him that Kashmir needed its independence.
  • (8) It was kinder and gentler than what I had been getting in my church up to that point with people telling me it was an evil spirit and I was an unrepentant sinner.
  • (9) Criminals are released from prison and return to work every day, but the prospect of an unrepentant convicted rapist retaking his place at a League One football club has proved another matter.
  • (10) Updated at 9.34pm GMT 8.49pm GMT Senate majority leader Harry Reid tells reporters the CIA appears “unrepentant” , McClatchy reports : “I believe in separation of powers.
  • (11) The union for St Louis county police was unrepentant about its members' actions before control was ceded to the highway patrol, defending "the decisions made to control the unlawful and often chaotic moments of the previous days".
  • (12) Tan remains unrepentant and once again criticised Mackay's transfer dealings, and in particular his purchase of the Danish striker Andreas Cornelius.
  • (13) Mr Balestrieri, who founded an organisation last June with the express purpose of seeking Mr Kerry's excommunication, was unrepentant.
  • (14) On Tuesday, however, Murphy appeared unrepentant in that view, reminding party activists that in spite of the ghosts of Iraq, Labour does still support intervention.
  • (15) Though Ivanka’s feminist bonafides are shaky at best – the child care plan she pushed doesn’t include fathers, her Women Who Work campaign is more Pinterest than activist, she supports an unrepentant racist misogynist – any criticism of her is positioned as a rejection of feminist ideals.
  • (16) Gibb, who arrives for an interview on the subject bearing a little pile of Hirsch's works adorned with yellow Post-it notes, is unrepentant.
  • (17) Twice we went to the country unchanged, unrepentant, just plain unattractive.
  • (18) David reckoned later that his attacks had been too emotive, going beyond reasonable argument, though he was unrepentant.
  • (19) Fraser – a long-time advocate of freebirth who ran a website called Joyous Birth – was unrepentant.
  • (20) Brokenshire was unrepentant in the Commons in defending the government’s approach, which was described by some Labour backbenchers as a policy of “let them drown”.

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