unteachable
- a word derived from teachable.
Example Sentences
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So NFL teams look for unteachable qualities, then try to develop missing skills.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023
"Back in Ukraine we were told he was unteachable, that there was no school for him," his mum Olga says as she makes packed lunches in the family's small kitchen.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
Cooking requires a certain level of skill and knowledge and a deep level of intuition, the latter being unteachable and none of it easily acquired.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2022
I’d say your minor folly here was spending so much time trying to teach a guy who was unteachable.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2019
Looking back, I can’t believe that those same unteachable kids who refused to speak to each other are today’s Freedom Writers . . . the same Freedom Writers who became a family.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
