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

This datu informed me that he anticipated trouble, as the Ma�ggu��gan was of a different breed, being at times altogether unamenable to reason.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

Not that he is no longer a member of society nor unamenable to its general laws, but that he has become a respectable declasse, as it were.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival

Only the rich, the fortunate and the unamenable escaped.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph