indocile
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of indocile
From the Latin word indocilis, dating back to 1595–1605. See in- 3, docile
Example Sentences
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How superior also the elevated brain of the poodle dog, when compared with that of the indocile, snarling cur!
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
In your morbid hypercriticalness, you may wish this indocile, undisguisable, and most unsheltered feature had been made a little longer, or a little shorter, or a little wider, or not quite so wide.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
And again, for it was all the affair of the veriest moment, the slaves rushed once more on their indocile victim.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns
The Empire which made him Senator gained, however, but an indocile recruit.
From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot
When Bossuet tried to educate his indocile pupil the Dauphin, he taught him how God is above man, as man is above the brute.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
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