indocile

ADJECTIVE
  1. incapable of being controlled
    the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly
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How To Use indocile In A Sentence

  • Today Di the drum dress a spirit and prepare to take a brigade and teach this indocile federal country in the middle of the green center, what be shrieked to obey.
  • Professor Paul Emanuel, to wit, never lost an opportunity of intimating his opinion that mine was rather a fiery and rash nature — adventurous, indocile, and audacious. Villette
  • Mount Pruno, till, finding disciples there no less indocile to the severity of his discipline than the former, he was determined to pursue himself that rigorous plan of life which he had hitherto unsuccessfully proposed to others. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • 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. Wessex Tales
  • While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill? St. Ronan's Well
  • a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, Saint Ronan's Well
  • The vulgar of all ranks are invariably sensual and indocile; yet The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • The cabmen of Paris form a distinct class, a separate society, composed of all sorts of elements -- a turbulent, indocile, rebellious set of men, always in revolt against their employers and against the law, which holds them with an iron and inflexible grasp. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
  • But it was an indocile, a scornful, and a sarcastic face - the face of a man difficult to lead, and impossible to drive. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • The bullet that pierced Alexis's heart was not a random bullet shot from a cop's gun to the body of an 'indocile' kid. Anarkismo.net
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