indocile
not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
Origin of indocile
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How to use indocile in a sentence
The Indian, of the type which we have chosen to judge him by, is pre-eminently indocile and inflexible.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies | Robert Gordon LathamThey appear to live upon horseback, and are indolent, indocile, and useless out of the saddle.
We were alone, and I think I was always less indocile, less unamiable, when there were few witnesses of my behaviour.
Discipline | Mary BruntonHow superior also the elevated brain of the poodle dog, when compared with that of the indocile, snarling cur!
Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 | VariousWhen Arguelles was her governor, she was indocile and refractory; under the care of Olózaga she only remained three months.
British Dictionary definitions for indocile
/ (ɪnˈdəʊsaɪl) /
difficult to discipline or instruct
Derived forms of indocile
- indocility (ˌɪndəʊˈsɪlɪtɪ), noun
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