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

It is comparatively unamenable to the moral, or, if one will, the puritanical, objections so naturally brought against Sapho.

From The Nabob by Blaydes, W.

Only the rich, the fortunate and the unamenable escaped.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph

It belongs to some one else, and therefore is unamenable to discipline.

From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman