Definitionadj. capable of being influenced or formed
Last update: January 22, 2017
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The natural rubber is very pliant. [adjective]
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The bossy man wanted a pliant wife who would obey his every command. [adjective]
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This view reduces people power to little more than the pliant tool of the US. [adjective]
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Suddenly darting on each other, they closed, and came to the earth, twisted together like twining serpents, in pliant and subtle folds. [adjective]
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The daughter of the most beloved of kings had the instincts of a tyrant, and was ever urging her too pliant husband to unpopular measures. [adjective]
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The pliant intellect which the gods bestowed on me would ill sustain the test in this hour of anguish. [adjective]
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She was pliant in form as a young palm-tree when it bends, and withal she had a noble dignity, even on the occasion when I first saw her. [adjective]
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Then, as now, she was not above middle height, but her form possessed the most exquisite symmetry, only it was still more delicate and pliant. [adjective]
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Like one possessed, he contorted his pliant limbs until his eyes seemed starting from his head and a bloody foam issued from his lips. [adjective]
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