corrigible

Example Sentences

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These are failures that are entirely corrigible if the job seeker makes the effort to become self-aware and improve his or her odds of success.

From US News • Nov. 9, 2015

It was a big moment for sports-loving Hannegan too: he had been a three-sport letter man at St. Louis University, an in corrigible baseball fan in Washington and a faithful follower of the football Redskins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patient Mediator For much of his life, Nasser was an in corrigible conspirator, and his enemies were never benign.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Courtland did not prove corrigible, why, there was still as good fish in the sea as ever was caught.

From The Witness by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill

These qualities make the creature unserviceable in active war or in agriculture, and they seem to be so fixed in the blood that they are not to any extent corrigible.

From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate