unpliable
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Water-glass soaps do not dissolve readily in water, they make but little suds, and render the skin hard and unpliable.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various
For she was, to use a lumbering expression, all in front of her spine, with neither backward curve to her head, nor her shoulders nor hips, which gave her a peculiarly unpliable appearance.
From Nancy Stair A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane
These jack-boots were as solid and unpliable as iron, square-toed and clumsy of shape.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
Its furniture was almost entirely of the same date as the house, which means dingy carpets, curtains of harsh and unpliable stuff, and immense catafalques of mahogany in the shape of sideboards, arm-chairs, and beds.
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
The court coteries did not yet venture to assail these unpliable men; and it is a merit in the King that he held a protecting hand over their integrity.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
