indocile
Example Sentences
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We were alone, and I think I was always less indocile, less unamiable, when there were few witnesses of my behaviour.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
In your morbid hypercriticalness, you may wish this indocile, undisguisable, and most unsheltered feature had been made a little longer, or a little shorter, or a little wider, or not quite so wide.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Indeed, the child had always been wayward and strange, and especially indocile to Edith's instructions, although she seemed at times to have a strong affection for her.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee
How superior also the elevated brain of the poodle dog, when compared with that of the indocile, snarling cur!
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
The Empire which made him Senator gained, however, but an indocile recruit.
From The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory
