impenitent
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In Gainsborough’s painting Germain looks imperious and impenitent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
In Maxwell’s impenitent gaze, we could see the broader audacity of the Epstein affair.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 16, 2019
She loved that Lorraine was impenitent and fought out of professional duty, rather than to avenge, say, the loss of a husband or child.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
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
They had served their time out in a penitentiary; but their appearance was enough to demonstrate to all that saw them, that they had been under the care of impenitent keepers.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
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