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Meanings of docile in English
Usage of docile in English
1
What the financiers and industrial managers most want is efficient, docile labor.
2
In the docile souls of the early sanctified, its task is easy.
3
David Brody brought a live Mexican tarantula which he said was docile.
4
I am the most docile of men and the easiest of invalids.
5
However, he tolerates little dissent and his party controls the docile legislature.
6
We met docile camels in great number, bringing figs from the interior.
7
The discipline of the past two weeks had made her wholly docile.
8
But it was no longer the disciplined and docile Democracy of old.
9
They are simple, docile, and affectionate almost to the point of absurdity.
10
The same principle applied to man has resulted in more docile workers.
11
The docile or submissive was not the remarkable element in Nina's nature.
12
Sullivan Smith, unbridled in the middle of dinner, was docile to her.
13
The working oxen of this country are very docile and easily managed.
14
There was also a stockade fence confining other, presumably more docile prisoners.
15
He may be a docile citizen; he will never be a man.
16
Robert and Corinne moved away with the docile little child between them.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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