unamenable

Example Sentences

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He was a worldling, father of a family, unamenable to her teachings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chew Wong was set in his ways and unamenable to suggestion.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Within sight of the river a mystery, or anything uninvestigated, or aught unamenable to the spirit of the age, would have seemed an anachronism.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Under the invigoration of his mood a situation which had long seemed unamenable to change resolved itself into new and simpler proportions.

From Different Girls by Various

Jane Clairmont, wilful, rebellious, witty, and probably a good deal spoilt, whose subsequent conduct shows that she was utterly unamenable to her mother’s authority, was, at first, away at school.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas