impenitence
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She still bristles at his impenitence in poaching her long-ago words and deeds for what she calls his “Little Girl Stories,” but she has a more nuanced view of the complicated man who raised her.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
This theme of mendacity and impenitence ran throughout Engoron’s ruling.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2024
There is something deeply refreshing about Griffin’s impenitence, especially as Democrats and Republicans alike pay shallow lip service to the value of “civility” in political discourse.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2018
To old Time Warner shareholders, or anyone with a rudimentary sense of shame, that impenitence may be frustrating.
From BusinessWeek • Aug. 22, 2013
The two chief agents in his two great tragedies pass away—the phrase was, perhaps, unconsciously repeated—"in a mist": perplexed, indomitable, defiant of hope and fear; bitter and sceptical and bloody in penitence or impenitence alike.
From The Age of Shakespeare by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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