impenitent
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In Weidman’s novel, the main character, a garment industry climber named Harry Bogen, is an impenitent snake, a moral bottom feeder who knows no bottom.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023
In Maxwell’s impenitent gaze, we could see the broader audacity of the Epstein affair.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 16, 2019
But her new employer, Politico Europe, was keen to appoint an impenitent to fire warning shots across the commission’s bow.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2015
“I declare myself an impenitent believer in the power of preaching,” he told an evangelical group in New York in 2006, by then a frail and stooped figure walking with a cane.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2011
He has no cure in Savoy, though he may have business there; and as to Corse de Leon being a penitent, he is very impenitent indeed.
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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