Adjective : insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection. From Dictionary.com.
He had reached a stage where he was not insusceptible to compromise. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
However, most political conspiracy theories are insusceptible of proof. From Wordnik.com. [Purpose of Conspiracy Theories] Reference
So long, indeed, as any body is naturally coherent and one, it is insusceptible. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation and Corruption] Reference
It fell upon his ear with many tones of tenderness, that were not insusceptible of the new meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
Not insusceptible to the stylistic lessons of Pascoli and Gozzano, nor to contemporaries writing in. From Wordnik.com. [Eugenio Montale - Biography] Reference
It is the return of confidence, to speak in ordinary language, which is so insusceptible to control in an economy of individualistic capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
Naturally insusceptible, however, of fear, he crossed himself, and stoutly demanded of the Saracen an account of the pedigree which he had boasted. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
We are fighting a shadowy insurgency and we have unclear, complex goals which are insusceptible to quantitative measurement and which can be achieved only be degree. From Wordnik.com. [The hanging crimes of Howard Dean] Reference
So, too, bodies are insusceptible so long as they are not in contact either with one another or with other bodies which are by nature such as to act and suffer action. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation and Corruption] Reference
Have you not seen some beings endowed with humanity nearly as destitute of a nervous system as the medusæ, nearly as insusceptible of any sensation from the accidents of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
There are men quite insusceptible to feminine witchcraft. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Some users have proven insusceptible to the effects of binaural beats. From Wordnik.com. [eHow - Health How To's] Reference
Some natural defect perhaps makes you insusceptible in spite of yourself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
I am sure that he would be very insusceptible to proper domestic influences. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
The electrical plug connections are waterproof and thus insusceptible to faults. From Wordnik.com. [webBikeWorld.com] Reference
The state of consciousness becomes then insusceptible of any verbal description. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
Her tone set aside the subject as insusceptible of sufficient or satisfactory answer. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
The plant next, though plastic in its elements, is comparatively insusceptible of change. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
These disputes are the most insusceptible of determination, because they have no foundation in reason. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
Life itself is insusceptible of any definition which satisfies, but we know that we live, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Book for Christmas] Reference
Thus the starling eats hemlock, its constitution rendering it insusceptible to the action of the poison. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
It is from fifty to one hundred and fifty yards wide, always rapid, rocky, and insusceptible of navigation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
It was found that by continuing this process the animal might be rendered wholly insusceptible to the disease. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
That its suppression however is a moral, legal and literal impossibility, is equally insusceptible of dispute. From Wordnik.com. [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference
It is insusceptible of rust, as gold is, and he thinks it's reflective power equal to that of the mixed metal. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
They knew Mrs. Hilary to be a muddled bigot, whose mind was stuffed with concrete instances and insusceptible of abstract reason. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Ages] Reference
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Tea] Reference
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