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Only his fatal bashfulness, his irreclaimably retiring disposition, could have kept him silent in such circumstances.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

By degrees its much tried parent was made to realize that this noisy acquisition to her home was considered unquestionably and irreclaimably, her own.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

All the older women were at work now, and all but the most irreclaimably frivolous of the young ones.

From The Sisters-In-Law by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

The goodness and the nobleness, of which his heart was not destitute, turned, from that time, wholly to evil; and he became irrecoverably ruined and irreclaimably depraved.

From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She saw again and again that he was irreclaimably a fool and a prodigy of irresponsibleness.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold