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

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

Gregory was different; while Helena, in small ways, was unamenable, he was as good as the gold stars he continually got for admirable conduct.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph

Not that he is no longer a member of society nor unamenable to its general laws, but that he has become a respectable declasse, as it were.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival