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unrehabilitatable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + rehabilitatable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not capable of being rehabilitated.
    • 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. 2014, Julie Passanante Elman, Chronic Youth: Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation: