untractable
- a word derived from tractable.
Example Sentences
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Judge Ferguson again had to deal with untractable witnesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Scoundrel, by the untractable Ben Hecht, will occupy the nights of Emily Stevens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, living in California and Maine, Mother Goddam admits that she has been "uncompromising, peppery, untractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and ofttimes disagreeable."
From Time Magazine Archive
M. Pajot was still comptroller of the posts in Paris; and he proved to be hardly less untractable than before the war.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert
Sir J. C. Ross observed in Boothia Felix a good deal of difference in the disposition of specimens, some being easily tamed, whilst others would remain savage and untractable even with the kindest treatment.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam
