Example Sentences

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I say “enforced” because bureaucracies are man-made and, with sufficient political will, reformable.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

The trial simply corroborated the Berrigans' suspicion that society was not reformable from within.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fred Rose in St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal; the others in Kingston Penitentiary, where all are rated as "reformable" under the prison grading system.

From Time Magazine Archive

Irreformable, ir-re-for′ma-bl, adj. not reformable, not subject to revision or improvement.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

If he is reformable he takes the lesson, and very likely becomes excellent friends with those who "drew" him.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George