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Meanings of more pliable in English

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Usage of more pliable in English
1
He's right, of course: we definitely need considerably more pliable females.
The Guardian
2
She agrees that female stars are expected to be more pliable than men.
The Guardian
3
Progress aside, he was using the hunger to make the girl more pliable.
The Descent
4
This has the appearance of bladder, but is both tougher and more pliable.
The History of Sumatra / Containing An Account Of The Government...
5
What's actually on offer here is of an altogether softer and more pliable character.
The Irish Times
6
She was softer and more pliable, for Alice was marked by an unflinching steadfastness.
Carmen's Messenger
7
It altered her mood, softened her, made her more pliable.
Youth Challenges
8
Spectra, because it absorbs less water, remains more pliable.
Rock and Ice Magazine
9
It might put her in a more pliable mood.
A river in the sky
10
But that will have to wait until the Reality Television Lobotomization Program renders consumers more pliable.
Wired
11
He may therefore be more pliable than Javid.
Reuters
12
M. Costeclar had become more pliable than his own lavender kid gloves: in fact, alarmingly pliable.
Other People's Money
13
The Czar was made of more pliable stuff.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
14
Some patients with damaged vocal cords have viscous materials injected to make the folds more pliable.
The Guardian
15
But as time slipped by it became softer and more pliable, and ceased to irritate me.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917
16
It made you all so much more pliable.
The Book of Life
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