Synonyms
Examples for "acquiescent"
Examples for "acquiescent"
1
The mackintosh was formal and defensive; the frock was intimate and acquiescent.
2
For decades nurses have been the most acquiescent of public sector workers.
3
The acquiescent murmuring of the Council showed how thoroughly they endorsed Mr.
4
An acquiescent nod gave him permission to lift the note and read:
5
The ape is cunning but acquiescent and accepts things as they are.
1
Barbara did as he commanded with the expression of a biddable child.
2
From being a meek and biddable thing, it has become a bully.
3
I have been a good, biddable daughter in every other way.
4
Being un-biddable was one thing, forcing her attention on him was quite another.
5
But men in search of security might easily convince themselves she was biddable.
6
He was a biddable lad with none of his mother's arrogance.
7
Or had his trance made him biddable, like a person walking in sleep?
8
There's an abandoned mine where we can hold her until she turns biddable.
9
The new minister of war was Paolo Morrone, a biddable general proposed by Cadorna.
10
She had been a biddable pup, trained early to responsibility.
11
After the second try, he started poisoning her to keep her weak and biddable.
12
The city-folk had stars of their own; biddable, domesticated stars.
13
But no loss herein if it do make him more biddable in women's matters.
14
A boy will be more biddable, more tractable, also cheaper.
15
There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
16
It was not like her-shewas always so good and biddable, and told me everything.