What's the difference between incorrigible and irredeemable?

Incorrigible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
  • (n.) One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain’s welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.
  • (2) But more importantly, the museum's exhibitions keep surfacing the "incorrigible plurality" – as the poet Louis MacNeice put it – of human beings and how that manifests in the communities, nation states and empires they build.
  • (3) Journalists have colluded in the self-pleasuring of Boris Johnson by obsessing over which side of the fence that incorrigible attention-seeker will fall.
  • (4) Police suspect global Project was actually made-up: a cover story or “legend” designed to disguise the real purpose of Kovtun and Lugovoi’s trip to London, which was to murder a man long regarded by the Kremlin as an incorrigible traitor.
  • (5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
  • (6) Exarticulation according to Syme was resorted in order to cope with an incorrigible abnormal position of the foot and for leg length inequality.
  • (7) And there are entries that point to Peel as an incorrigible collector and tireless champion of the recherche: with all due respect to an oeuvre that included the piquant-sounding Fuckin' 4 Bucks and I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, how many albums by Washington DC splattercore pioneers the Accüsed does one man really need?
  • (8) But they are more or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill."
  • (9) Eve Ensler and her incorrigible team have done so much to bring about this campaign.
  • (10) After she accused a neighbour of attempting to rape her, the 10-year-old Holiday, an incorrigible truant, was sent to a Catholic reform school until her mother secured her release.
  • (11) In fact, being drawn so narrowly from the category Occasion Wear, the costumes and photographs could scarcely have been better chosen to overlay memories of the surge of royal-blaming that Diana’s death inspired in 1997 – of her own reinvention as a global charity envoy and amateur healer, of her appointment as feminist heroine as well as tabloid goddess and, above all, of her magnificent achievements as the royal family’s incorrigible, lead tormentor.
  • (12) Continental Europeans often assume that England is, in its heart of oak, incorrigibly hostile to Europe.
  • (13) Later the infant will be operated, longer be will keep glottal stops may be incorrigible.
  • (14) It wasn't just that I was blind, which people seemed to find very interesting and therefore took a lot of notice of me, which as an incorrigible showoff I liked.
  • (15) He was described as seeming almost to be ‘obsessed with women’, and an ‘incorrigible womaniser’.” One female editorial member of the team gave evidence about “the almost daily sexual harassment” experienced at the hands of Hall.
  • (16) As trade secretary, he would be incorrigibly illiberal, refusing landing rights to Freddie Laker's Skytrain and being duly overruled by the high court.
  • (17) It can be traced back to Karl Jaspers who was the first to mention the three criteria of delusions, which are to be found in the textbooks ever since: (1) certainty, (2) incorrigibility, and (3) impossibility or falsity of content.
  • (18) As Marston sails for Europe, watching America recede into his past, Fitzgerald offers a closing meditation nearly as incantatory as the famous conclusion of Gatsby: "Watching the fading city, the fading shore, from the deck of the Majestic, he had a sense of overwhelming gratitude and of gladness that America was there, that under the ugly débris of industry the rich land still pushed up, incorrigibly lavish and fertile, and that in the heart of the leaderless people the old generosities and devotions fought on, breaking out sometimes in fanaticism and excess, but indomitable and undefeated.
  • (19) There's something incorrigibly Manchester about them in the same way that Happy Mondays are also typically Mancunian.
  • (20) Seven principles under Talmudic Law are discussed which were used by the Court to help determine whether or not an individual was in fact an incorrigible delinquent.

Irredeemable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
  • (2) Each sentence seems more absurd than the last until you are finally and irredeemably overwhelmed by its relentless meaningful meaninglessness.
  • (3) The second is that almost eight years after voting in the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, Cardinal Keith O'Brien seems too irredeemably tainted by scandal and allegations of hypocrisy to find himself electing any future popes.
  • (4) I, of course, told myself at the time that it was because there was something foul about the scene unfolding in my living room; something toxifying in this soft-world parody of the worst, most irredeemable yet persistent aspect of human nature: the unending horror of judgment and mass execution.
  • (5) And when things seemed irredeemably bleak, along came Russia's Vladimir Putin, invading and destabilising Ukraine, unilaterally redrawing the map of Europe on the EU's frontier, and challenging its leaders to stop him.
  • (6) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
  • (7) There will be difficult choices to be made if Labour wins the election but, if it doesn’t, because voters fall for the Tories’ myth-making or because people like Jack vote Green because “the only vote you should care about is your own”, the future for my constituents will remain irredeemably bleak.
  • (8) Its stubborn persistence is useful proof of the irredeemability of a corrupt system.
  • (9) Dallas was a world in which every villain was irredeemable, every emotion signposted, and everything happened for a reason – if only that it was all a dream .
  • (10) And thirdly, while this does harm to the UK chancellor's credibility, the rating agencies have already trashed their credibility irredeemably.
  • (11) Ince remains irredeemable at the Boleyn Ground , this antipathy outlasting even Ferguson.
  • (12) He was startled to be rounded on in his early adulthood by the proletarian poet Jesse Tor, who denounced him as "irredeemably bourgeois".
  • (13) Shorten said Pyne lacked the numbers to pass his legislation as the measures were unfair and “irredeemable”.
  • (14) I wanted the horror to be concluded, definitively and irredeemably, so that I could blot it out.
  • (15) The terrorist group’s “brand” might be irredeemably tarnished, as happened with al-Qaida.
  • (16) With Hillary Clinton in danger of losing her place as the party’s natural frontrunner amid an ongoing scandal over a private email server she used while secretary of state and doubts about her ability to connect with voters, the 72-year-old Biden – once dismissed as irredeemably gaffe-prone – has been recast as a safe pair of hands and a more authentic voice of the party’s blue collar base.
  • (17) Spitting Image always portrayed him as a shouty figure, irredeemably uncouth.
  • (18) In papers submitted to the court, they argue that they face "irredeemable difficulty" in their attempts to defend the claim, not least because they cannot bring forward witnesses.
  • (19) Despite the fact that his tattoos, mohawks and on-court demeanor make him look like at best a sideshow geek and at worst a particularly irredeemable inmate on Oz , Chris "Birdman" Andersen has actually been the Heat's most valuable bench player, contributing big on defense and making all of his shots during the Eastern Conference finals.
  • (20) With the irredeemable Tassi, he knew where he stood.