indocile
adjective
not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
indocility
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a word derived from
indocile.
Example Sentences
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Wouldst thou have the innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood?
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Hence a certain indocility and rigidness of mind which they only escape who live out of the fashion or have strength to lead it or to live above it.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
Many of us who were remarkable for our indocility in boyhood, and remarkable for nothing else, have found much consolation in this passage.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Corneille, as has been said above, was one of Richelieu's five poets, but he was indocile to the Cardinal's caprices; and either this indocility or jealousy set Richelieu against Le Cid.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
It is, I believe, not so “correct” as it once was to admire this; but I confess indocility to correctness, at least the correctness which varies with fashion.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
