unamenable

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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

The women were proving so unamenable to his excellent reasoning.

From The Jervaise Comedy by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)

In all these cases the facts, as stated by Brown-S�quard, are plainly unamenable to any explanation which would suppose them due to microbes, or even to any general neurotic condition induced by the operation.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

This datu informed me that he anticipated trouble, as the Ma�ggu��gan was of a different breed, being at times altogether unamenable to reason.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.