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

And I adduce it in the present connexion because the peculiarity is one which is equally unamenable to a utilitarian explanation, whether it happens to occur as a generic or a specific character.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

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

From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman

He was almost absolutely unamenable to the Hospital regulations and on that account had to be frequently reprimanded.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard