pliant
bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
easily influenced; yielding to others; compliant: He has a pliant nature.
Origin of pliant
1synonym study For pliant
Other words for pliant
Other words from pliant
- pli·an·cy, pli·ant·ness, noun
- pli·ant·ly, adverb
- non·pli·an·cy, noun
- non·pli·ant, adjective
- non·pli·ant·ly, adverb
- non·pli·ant·ness, noun
- un·pli·an·cy, noun
- un·pli·ant, adjective
- un·pli·ant·ly, adverb
- un·pli·ant·ness, noun
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How to use pliant in a sentence
The ad reminds readers that there is no income tax in Texas, that the state has budget surpluses and “pliant labor laws.”
Bank bosses who refused were simply replaced with pliant sycophants.
He called that pliant decision the biggest mistake of his presidency.
She did not speak; she moved her fingers caressingly over his hand, thinking how pliant and feminine, how characteristic, it was.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterTo know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre | Jean de La Bruyre
Other men might find her pliant, pleasing, seductive; he alone knew her as disinterested.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) MahanNot merely tall, but pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree.
Honor O'callaghan | Mary Russell MitfordIn every American city with a large pliant foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way.
The Old World in the New | Edward Alsworth Ross
British Dictionary definitions for pliant
/ (ˈplaɪənt) /
easily bent; supple: a pliant young tree
easily modified; adaptable; flexible: a pliant system
yielding readily to influence; compliant
Origin of pliant
1Derived forms of pliant
- pliancy or pliantness, noun
- pliantly, adverb
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