unpliable

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Its furniture was almost entirely of the same date as the house, which means dingy carpets, curtains of harsh and unpliable stuff, and immense catafalques of mahogany in the shape of sideboards, arm-chairs, and beds.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

The court coteries did not yet venture to assail these unpliable men; and it is a merit in the King that he held a protecting hand over their integrity.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Her very lips were stiff and unpliable with the force of the blood which rushed to her head.

From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Water-glass soaps do not dissolve readily in water, they make but little suds, and render the skin hard and unpliable.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

All our failures here proceed from bad education, want of capacity, or a perverse and unpliable disposition.

From An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by Hume, David