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Meanings of indocile in English

Of persons.

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        Examples for "unruly"
        Examples for "unruly"
        1
        That governance sometimes means bringing order to unruly elements in said Association.
        Ebony
        2
        Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
        Reuters
        3
        However, one of the unruly protesters has now been brought to book.
        The South African
        4
        The boys had never been so unruly; the girls never so inattentive.
        Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
        5
        A transatlantic flight made an emergency landing today after an unruly and
        The Irish Times
        1
        New Yorkers have an almost uncontrollable tendency to envy other New Yorkers.
        The new yorker
        2
        Unpredictable and uncontrollable stressful events have been shown to affect cognitive processes.
        Pubmed
        3
        At sight of the flowers the queen of the skaters becomes uncontrollable.
        Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
        4
        All the city was in a state of uncontrollable fright and agitation.
        French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
        5
        This presents the risk of your vehicle going into an uncontrollable slide.
        The South African
        1
        The effect of it was to make the poor beast quite ungovernable.
        Finished
        2
        In their ungovernable turbulence, they remind us of the Prætorians of Rome.
        General History for Colleges and High Schools
        3
        Frantic with almost ungovernable rage, I sought my father in his study.
        A Master of Mysteries
        4
        Being ungovernable has become endemic, said Claudio Tito, columnist for La Repubblica.
        The South African
        5
        You will not pretend to justify the excesses of his ungovernable passion.
        Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
        Usage of indocile in English
        1
        MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains.
        The Devil's Dictionary
        2
        We are indocile to put up with grief, however.
        The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
        3
        Aldonza was by no means indocile or incapable.
        The Armourer's Prentices
        4
        The chambers are indocile for the same reason; encourage every body, and every body will be on your side.
        Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 18...
        5
        How superior also the elevated brain of the poodle dog, when compared with that of the indocile, snarling cur!
        Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 / Volume 1, Number 1
        6
        And again, for it was all the affair of the veriest moment, the slaves rushed once more on their indocile victim.
        A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
        Indocile through the time