reform
noun
the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc..
unreformable
-
a word derived from
reform.
Example Sentences
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Maybe the effort will amount to a lot of talk and the higher-education sector, as it’s terrifyingly known, will remain an expensive, unreformable blob.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The dispute once again makes France look unreformable.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2023
Wiseman has spent a career probing the complex inner workings and painfully human errors of America’s establishments, but in marriage itself, he may have found the most fraught, mysterious and unreformable institution of all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
“The Olympics are unreformable, and I think on balance, they do more harm than good,” said David Goldblatt, author of “The Games: A Global History of the Olympics.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2021
In the deepest bottom of his heart, everyone has the urge to be, not just physically, but also ethically, free, even the seemingly unreformable ones.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
