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Meanings of pliability in English

Portuguese
elasticidade
Catalan
elasticitat

Adaptability of mind or character.

        elasticidade

        The property of being easily bent without breaking.

              Usage of pliability in English
              1
              Drink, my children; health consists in the pliability and moisture of the parts.
              International Short Stories: French
              2
              At most he had loved her nubile young body and pliability.
              Fortunate harbor
              3
              And therewith such pliability as the Mother of Love requires of her servants.
              The Amazing Marriage — Complete
              4
              The situation was not new, nor was there any novelty in Michael's pliability.
              Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron
              5
              His apparent pliability hid a dexterity which evaded every recognized principle.
              The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
              6
              He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength.
              Eminent Victorians
              7
              Nevertheless, he had courage, pliability, and a turn for political adventure.
              The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
              8
              Her very pliability has rescued her from being utterly squashed long ere this!
              Evan Harrington — Volume 4
              9
              Beneath her pliability she was now all firmness; the pliability had become a mockery.
              A Far Country — Volume 3
              10
              His policy wanted pliability, the only virtue which was here indispensable to its success.
              History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
              11
              He had all a true vagabond's pliability to circumstances and adaptiveness to momentary surroundings.
              An Outcast of the Islands
              12
              In his nature, there is the fatal pliability which finds companionable qualities in bad friends.
              Blind Love
              13
              This pliability on the part of the vanquished, however was not mere patience and resignation.
              The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
              14
              Eh? Wertz had joined his mate, and both were working pliability into their frozen moccasins.
              The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
              15
              His religious enthusiasm stopped short of fanaticism; his pliability would not bend so low as duplicity.
              The Slave of the Lamp
              16
              And therewith such pliability as the Mother of
              The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
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              Translations for pliability
              Portuguese
              elasticidade
              Pliability through the time
              Pliability across language varieties
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