indocile
[in-dos-il]
- not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
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Origin of indocile
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Historical Examples
They appear to live upon horseback, and are indolent, indocile, and useless out of the saddle.
When Bossuet tried to educate his indocile pupil the Dauphin, he taught him how God is above man, as man is above the brute.
A History of French LiteratureEdward Dowden
On these front seats sat the gay and indocile Belgian girls.
A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British AuthorsTheodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
And again, for it was all the affair of the veriest moment, the slaves rushed once more on their indocile victim.
A Friend of CaesarWilliam Stearns Davis
The prince was neither timid, nor indocile, nor fretful; but his education was very much behindhand.
Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. I (of III)C. F. Lachelles Wraxall
indocile
- difficult to discipline or instruct
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