unpliable

Example Sentences

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How grotesque her features were, so hard and unpliable seemed her flesh.

From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron

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

These jack-boots were as solid and unpliable as iron, square-toed and clumsy of shape.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

Some method of training must be chosen in which renewals may be made rather frequently from the ground so that if the trunks become large, clumsy and unpliable, a more manageable trunk can be trained.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

For she was, to use a lumbering expression, all in front of her spine, with neither backward curve to her head, nor her shoulders nor hips, which gave her a peculiarly unpliable appearance.

From Nancy Stair A Novel by Lane, Elinor Macartney