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Meanings of more docile in English

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Usage of more docile in English
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The same principle applied to man has resulted in more docile workers.
City of Endless Night
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There was also a stockade fence confining other, presumably more docile prisoners.
Helen of troy
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Either that or he was even more docile than Lem had supposed.
Earth Unaware
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He switched from work horses to oxen that are more docile.
Reuters
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Not even after the original thunderstorm had he been more docile.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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Never had the captious little girl been more docile, more obedient.
A Little Book for Christmas
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After that Myrtle was quieter and more docile than ever before.
The Guardian Angel
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Never was there a more docile literary lady than my friend.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Compiled From Her Letters and Jo...
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An infant could not have been more docile with its nurse.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
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The 2013 SRT Viper is more docile than its predecessors, but only slightly
BBC
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He has not listened to religion,-hemaybe more docile to philosophy.
"My Novel" — Volume 12
12
You will have to be more yielding, more docile, more sociable.
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
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The girl appeared even more docile, even more remote, than before.
The Irda (Children of the Stars)
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La Feuillade, now under two masters, grew, it might be imagined, more docile.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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Farmers have castrated male animals for thousands of years to make them more docile.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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The PD, decimated in Sunday's election, may also be a more docile coalition partner.
Reuters
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