beyond redemption

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beyond redemption (not comparable)

  1. Too bad to be corrected or improved.
    After an endless day of being beaten up at school for no good reason, and having to walk home in a blizzard for five endless hours, he took a long shower and went straight to bed before seven o'clock, convinced his day was beyond redemption.
    • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      “It’s none of your business how I speak to her. She’s my property now,” he continued to Dad and Frank with a sinister smile. The boy realised this man was bad. Bad beyond redemption.
  2. Incapable of being saved from sin or evil.
    Society holds the belief that mass murderers are beyond redemption.

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