What's the difference between irredeemable and unreformable?
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.
Unreformable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Henceforth, like many other dissidents, both open and undeclared, Mitrokhin concluded that the system was unreformable and would have to be replaced.
(2) It is not just the City that is resisting calls for structural change; the economy at large is almost entirely unreformed.
(3) A tiny number of officers trained to degree-standard qualifications "vanish into the cesspool" of an unreformed system, according to one US army police trainer.
(4) Though his criticisms of the KGB's unreformed bureaucracy were mild by western standards, they led to his transfer, late in 1956, from operations to the relative backwater of the archives, where he served for the remainder of his career.
(5) We cannot continue to write bigger and bigger cheques to remain a member of an unreformed and uncompetitive European Union.
(6) Auda is more of a problem: his character is portrayed as an unreformed savage who cares only for violence, treasure and his own pompous self-image.
(7) In fact, the truly risky option in this referendum will be to stay in an unreformed EU, handing over ever more control of our economy and our borders to political bureaucrats whom we cannot vote out and who have made clear that they do not care what we think.
(8) The monarchy’s foundations are less secure than is often assumed, which is why royalists should be worried that the Queen will leave behind an institution as unreformed as it is undemocratic.
(9) But giving free money to an unreformed banking industry has – surprise!
(10) Johnson has been a poor so-called "commissioner", leaving Britain's most flatulent gendarmerie inefficient and unreformed.
(11) The rituals are well known – the cursory phone call, or brief summons to No 10, an expression of half-felt gratitude, and a mumbled explanation about the need to find space for new faces, and, if the departing minister is lucky, an exchange of public correspondence thanking them for their work on the reform of local government finance, coupled with a private promise of a seat in the unreformed Lords.
(12) No recognition that, left unreformed, there is no incentive for families to plan and prepare," Burstow wrote in the Daily Telegraph .
(13) Mullah Omar remains at large, and ideologically unreformed.
(14) "So can we really ask them to keep paying their taxes into unreformed gold-plated public sector pension pots?
(15) For the coalition to abandon its proposals, after spending £12m on this review, shows just how unreformable Westminster is," the spokesperson said.
(16) But to reach those heights and win popular backing, Sisi has been forced to adopt the vocabulary of revolution, however insincerely, and issue promises – on economic justice, an end to corruption, an improvement in living standards – that his unreformed state will not be able to deliver.
(17) The governor has warned, repeatedly and almost certainly correctly, that leaving the banks broadly unreformed will lead to a fresh and perhaps even more serious crisis.
(18) In the case of Podemos, repeatedly attacking la casta (the elites) may seem simple or trite on paper, as some have argued, but expressing your disavowal in the context of Spain’s domination by a corrupt, unreformable “regime of 78” (the year of the post-Franco constitution) which is in thrall to the troika and their friends in the bailed-out banks, as well as 40 years of Francoist patriarchy before that, becomes potentially transcendent.
(19) I told him he can enjoy his non-retirement [a reference to the peer's intention to return to business] in an unreformed House of Lords: I hope not for ever but for some time."
(20) Christopher Jefferies, the Bristol landlord of a flat from which murdered 25-year-old Joanna Yeates disappeared, who was libelled five years ago by the Sun, among other newspapers, said: “The proposed reappointment of Rebekah Brooks, who has never apologised to the victims of her negligent oversight, is yet another sign that we have a press industry that is largely unreformed, unrepentant and unwilling to understand that they have lost the public’s trust.” It is not clear what salary Brooks is likely to be paid on her return, but Darcey is certainly set to receive a hefty pay-off.