Example Sentences

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Some were held on loitering charges, while others were detained over their perceived "incorrigibility."

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

The “argument that the sentencer must make a finding of permanent incorrigibility is inconsistent with the court’s precedents,” Kavanaugh wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2021

Even Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s most liberal member, expressed qualms about requiring judges to use what she called “magic words” regarding incorrigibility in sentencing juvenile offenders to life without parole.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2020

Could a state, Chief Justice John Roberts asked, just tell a judge: “Here are the things you need to consider, and transient youth or incorrigibility is one of them?”

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2019

The manhood was gone from the mottled features, which now wore the furtive look of the hunted, the sign-manual of cunning, incorrigibility and debauch.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie