unpliable

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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 Lane, Elinor Macartney

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 Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Her very lips were stiff and unpliable with the force of the blood which rushed to her head.

From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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 Boswell, James

There was something fixed in it, and Archie's nebulous easy-going temperament had an invincible repugnance to anything unpliable.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary