indocile

Example Sentences

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In your morbid hypercriticalness, you may wish this indocile, undisguisable, and most unsheltered feature had been made a little longer, or a little shorter, or a little wider, or not quite so wide.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

On these front seats sat the gay and indocile Belgian girls.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

A feeling of sudden, proud self-confidence, an indocile wish to walk unmoved in spite of grim environments, plainly possessed him, and when he reached the wicket-gate he turned in without apparent effort. 

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

Indeed, the child had always been wayward and strange, and especially indocile to Edith's instructions, although she seemed at times to have a strong affection for her.

From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Lee, Eliza Buckminster

When Arguelles was her governor, she was indocile and refractory; under the care of Olózaga she only remained three months.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various