tractable
adjective
easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding.
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
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
The Scoundrel, by the untractable Ben Hecht, will occupy the nights of Emily Stevens.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the admirable quartette of the second act a child is introduced, as in "Norma," to awaken the sympathies of an untractable tenor papa.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
Vergennes is somewhat unpopular with vineyardists because of the sprawling habit of the vines which makes them untractable for vineyard operations; this fault is obviated by grafting on other vines.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
