amenable
adjective
ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable.
unamenable
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a word derived from
amenable.
Example Sentences
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He was a worldling, father of a family, unamenable to her teachings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chew Wong was set in his ways and unamenable to suggestion.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
At first there had been despair in her heart because the face of the man she thought she knew had been the face of a stranger, as unamenable to change as that of the sphinx.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
When a patient who showed himself unamenable was met with the shout: 'What are you doing?
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
Privacy, therefore does not by itself make a datum unamenable to scientific treatment.
From The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell
