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pliable Adjective 1. easily bent: pliable branches 2. easily influenced: his easy and pliable nature pliability n
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pliable adjective 1. flexible, plastic, supple, lithe, limber, malleable, pliant, tensile, bendy, ductile, bendable << OPPOSITE rigid adjective 2. compliant, susceptible, responsive, manageable, receptive, yielding, adaptable, docile, impressionable, easily led, pliant, tractable, persuadable, influenceable, like putty in your hands << OPPOSITE stubborn Translations |
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When one's body is young, it is very pliable, and hard work will mould it like putty according to the nature of the work. Indeed the moon, liquid and pliable in the first days of its formation, was originally a perfect sphere; but being soon drawn within the attraction of the earth, it became elongated under the influence of gravitation. But she was more pliable under his hands than a mere companionship would have made her, owing to her unavoidable dependence upon his mother, and, through that lady's comparative helplessness, upon him. |
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