ill-intentioned vs incorrigible

ill-intentioned

adj
  • Having bad intentions; malevolent 

incorrigible

adj
  • Impervious to correction by punishment or pain. 

  • Unmanageable. 

  • Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright. 

  • Determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon. 

  • Incurably depraved; not reformable. 

noun
  • An incorrigibly bad individual. 

How often have the words ill-intentioned and incorrigible occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )