tractable
adjective
easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding.
untractable
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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
The tame Gayals, however long they may have been domesticated, do not at all differ from the wild ones, unless in temper, for the wild ones are fierce and untractable.
From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey
The complete victory he had gained, so far from making him haughty and untractable, had only increased his modesty and clemency even towards the enemy.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
