unpliable
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All our failures here proceed from bad education, want of capacity, or a perverse and unpliable disposition.
From An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
All her life, as it seemed, she had been accustomed to mediate between these two unpliable and stubborn temperaments.
From The Market-Place by Harold Frederic
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
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
She had no notion of a joke, sir; had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable understanding.
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
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