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

It is comparatively unamenable to the moral, or, if one will, the puritanical, objections so naturally brought against Sapho.

From The Nabob by Blaydes, W.

At first there had been despair in her heart because the face of the man she thought she knew had been the face of a stranger, as unamenable to change as that of the sphinx.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

It belongs to some one else, and therefore is unamenable to discipline.

From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman