unpliable
Example Sentences
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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 Earle, Alice Morse
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
How grotesque her features were, so hard and unpliable seemed her flesh.
From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron
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
She had no notion of a joke, Sir; had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable understanding.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James
