unpliable

Example Sentences

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They are clumsy to place, burdensome to carry, and stiff and unpliable to the chafing point.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

I thought I had adroitly escaped the rather unpliable name of "Williams," curtailing your poor daughters to their proper surnames; but it seems you would not let me off so easily.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

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

She had no notion of a joke, sir; had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable understanding.

From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Boswell, James

There was something fixed in it, and Archie's nebulous easy-going temperament had an invincible repugnance to anything unpliable.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary