indocile
Example Sentences
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A feeling of sudden, proud self-confidence, an indocile wish to walk unmoved in spite of grim environments, plainly possessed him, and when he reached the wicket-gate he turned in without apparent effort.
From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas
Aldonza was by no means indocile or incapable.
From The Armourer's Prentices by Hennessy, W.J.
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 Furphy, Joseph
But it was an indocile, a scornful, and a sarcastic face—the face of a man difficult to lead, and impossible to drive.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
