indocile
Example Sentences
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But it was an indocile, a scornful, and a sarcastic face—the face of a man difficult to lead, and impossible to drive.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
When Bossuet tried to educate his indocile pupil the Dauphin, he taught him how God is above man, as man is above the brute.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
A passionate temper of spirit is very indocile.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
The untrained and indocile youth, however, is made the subject of compulsory distribution.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter
On these front seats sat the gay and indocile Belgian girls.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
