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
There are certain large tracts of life totally unamenable to consciousness.
From The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer
It is comparatively unamenable to the moral, or, if one will, the puritanical, objections so naturally brought against Sapho.
From The Nabob by W. Blaydes
It belongs to some one else, and therefore is unamenable to discipline.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Herman Bernstein
