indocile

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for indocile
Adjective
  • The third book in the Luna Sisters series follows the journey to love for the youngest and most rebellious Luna sister, Gabriela.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Gemma’s niece Cady (McGraw) is now 14, a rebellious teenager living under Gemma’s overprotective rules.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Kennedy Tolson is the sly queen of side-eye as the disobedient new housemaid Nancy.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • These first two episodes also give us the first appearance of Uma Thurman’s character, Charley, who seems to be recruiting serial killers and taking out disobedient ones in the Tri-State area.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • But theater owners, producers and theatrical labor unions strongly opposed the plan, staging boisterous protests in Times Square and packing community hearings in recent months.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Staffordshire terriers are described by the American Kennel Club (AKC) as being affectionate towards family and good with young children, and with good breeding can be a playful and boisterous companion.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The woman’s irrepressible vitality, independence, and powers of reinvention were stunning.
    Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Carroll may have made her bones as someone with ready answers and an irrepressible spirit, but Meeropol’s film is best when its subject finally realizes even the best advice only applies in the moment, in certain places, for certain people.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Sean Audy with the Will County sheriff’s office said the defendant also caused trouble at the Will County jail, including threatening a deputy, being insubordinate and uncooperative.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Respondents said those issues include violent, destructive or insubordinate behavior by the students.
    Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • In Aurora, some of the attendees became drunk and rowdy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Flipper’s Boogie Palace at LaCienega and Santa Monica was also the A lister’s night spot of its time, the roller disco home of the trendy (including a young Laura Dern), many in glitter hot pants ready for the rowdy rink.
    Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That all changed a year ago, when Mohamed — now a rambunctious 13-year-old — was able to enter an innovative self-learning program delivered by UNICEF with funding from Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises hosted by UNICEF.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Scientist say the incidents are not aggressive and should not be referred to as attacks but as encounters with playful, rambunctious animals.
    Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • He's since been taught that's the naughty finger.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Burnt out and fed up with her untameable class of 10-year-olds, Maria tussles with an increasingly naughty student, Danny (played wonderfully by young newcomer Eddie Waller), and makes a rash decision to keep him captive in her basement.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Indocile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indocile. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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