He is incurably ill. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She was incurably optimistic. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an incurable disease. ,his incurable pessimism. From Dictionary.com.
Which means that man is by make incurably selfish. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
He was absolutely right about me: I am incurably nosy. From Wordnik.com. [The Legend of the Slain Soldiers]
(On camera): The sanity commission ruled you were incurably insane?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2006] Reference
(On camera): The Sanity Commission ruled that you were incurably insane. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2007] Reference
The puppets remain incurably cute, juvenile and unmysteriously "naughty.". From Wordnik.com. [Puppets Gone Wild! Brooooooooooce Still 'The Boss' Big River Breaks New Ground] Reference
If Shimo was incurably awkward she would not be dismembered, but dismissed. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
My older brother inherited the farm, and my older sister was incurably bossy. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
It appears the clown causes those who are incurably sad to faint with laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
He made now a critical examination of the heart, and found it incurably affected. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
It's not because they are some incurably, diseased person with no hope of recovery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 2, 2007] Reference
It ` s not because they are some incurably diseased person with no hope of recovery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 10, 2007] Reference
It ` s not because they are some incurably diseased person with no hope of recovering. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007] Reference
"Now he was an old man," Mr. Draitser writes, "totally unemployable and incurably ill.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress] Reference
A total of 15 incurably insane out of billions ... is not what I would call an excessive figure. From Wordnik.com. [Whom Gods Destroy] Reference
What none of the children save Frank could realize was that Fee was permanently, incurably tired. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Here is a man I know, an outlying parishioner of mine, whose wife is hopelessly and incurably insane. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
There is, to my mind, something incurably frivolous about a woman who laughs when a man is in earnest. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
Roger were incurably injured, she could not add to his burden by retracting her promise to be his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Instead, he is incurably parochial in outlook on account of the limited scope of his economic activity. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He was incurably disorderly, and only the strenuous efforts of his daughter Joan kept the habit within bounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
Unless pressed firmly in shelves, or in piles, for at least two weeks, they may become incurably warped out of shape. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
If anyone had hinted a word of anything of the sort four or five years ago, I should have looked upon him as incurably mad. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole] Reference
A certain critic said of Stevenson that he was 'incurably literary;' the phrase is a good one, being both humorous and true. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
In his incurably optimistic eyes, he is living a charmed life in the perfect abode, and nobody is going to take it away from him. From Wordnik.com. [Aggressively Aussie] Reference
In a statement, the PAC official described himself as "incurably addicted to the proposition that the armed struggle is legitimate". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Voices young and old, left and right, are softening and a new civility can be heard in the declarations of all but the incurably bitter. From Wordnik.com. [Beth Broderick: Hate Takes A Holiday] Reference
But he is incurably averse to definite statements, and seems as anxious as a Palmerston might be to reserve a power of shuffling out. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Much of the pleasure of parody comes from contemplating the rival worlds that authors inhabit, each incurably idiosyncratic, each revolving on its own axis. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
Still, it was so incurably her habit to be trusting and friendly that on the doorstep she turned to shed on him her candid smile -- only to find the door already closed. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Whereof flunkeyism, cant, cloth-worship, or whatever ugly name it have, has gone about incurably sick ever since; and is now at length, in these generations, very rapidly dying. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
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