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unreformed
adjective
usually disapprovinguk /ʌn.rɪˈfɔːmd/ us /ˌʌn.rɪˈfɔːrmd/
(of a person or system) not changed or improved :
Throwing money at unreformed public services is guaranteed to lead to waste.
He has been described as an unreformed autocrat.
Compare
reformed
While the courts and prosecutors remain unreformed, better policing alone will not ensure that criminals are punished.
These leaders want to be seen as truly democratic, even though they are unreformed and unchanged.
In these countries, unemployment continues at sky-high levels because of unreformed labour markets.
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