unrehabilitatable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ rehabilitatable

Adjective[edit]

unrehabilitatable (not comparable)

  1. Not capable of being rehabilitated.
    • 2014, Julie Passanante Elman, Chronic Youth: Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation:
      As I will show, the fearsome specter of the superpredator—the unrehabilitatable, nonwhite criminal—provided a necessary foil to the imperiled white, heterosexual, suburban, middle-class boys who were the victims and perpetrators of a school shooting epidemic.