incorrigibility
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
And in Montgomery, Kavanaugh wrote, "the Court flatly stated that 'Miller did not impose a formal fact-finding requirement' and added that 'a finding of fact regarding a child's incorrigibility . . . is not required.' "
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
His discomfiture was the more complete since he felt that his defeat was owing to some mistake in his methods, and not the incorrigibility of his subject.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
