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Meanings of pliant in English

Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out.

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Able to adjust readily to different conditions.

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Examples for "flexible"
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However, the changing nature, and improvements in flexible work practices, may help.
The Irish Times
2
Different parts of the economy are more flexible than others of course.
The Irish Times
3
Background: Achieving proficiency in flexible endoscopy requires a great amount of practice.
Pubmed
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Ms Sage said the government should be more flexible in its approach.
Radio NZ
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Certainly our attitude to creative freedom and game development remains fairly flexible.
The Guardian
1
Spider silk is a particularly desirable version: elastic yet strong and tough.
The Irish Times
2
Yet that number grew even more elastic as the campaign wore on.
Broke, usa: from pawnshops to poverty, inc.—how the working poor...
3
Of course the girls' underwear was clean and fresh and extremely elastic.
The lonely polygamist: a novel
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It is an aromatic bed: in theory it is elastic and consoling.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
5
Knead well for approximately 10 minutes until it is smooth and elastic.
The South African

Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.

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Capable of being influenced or formed.

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Usage of pliant in English
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At least one part of the economy is still pliant: China's currency.
Reuters
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The simple natures and forces will always be the most pliant ones.
Addresses by the Right Reverend Phillips Brooks
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She recoils from everything but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not...
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But he was overwhelmed by the girl and her young pliant warmth.
Babbitt
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To such a spirit the impossible is possible and opportunity is pliant.
Destiny
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He felt his strong young muscles, his vital fingers, his pliant wrists.
The Shagganappi
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Kant belongs to a period when philosophy is still young and pliant.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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They could make them pliant, and excommunicate them for non-payment of interest.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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Janus got his line ready, a small but strong and pliant rope.
The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills; Or, The Missing Pilot of th...
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But it did not make the bloc any more pliant in Congress.
Reuters
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A clever, pliant, winning mind knows how to avoid and overcome difficulties.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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Her lips became pliant; her hands reached for my shoulders and nape.
After the fall
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So sweet and good and pure-hearted and pliant a girl; but alas!
Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life
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The negro is pliant, unmoral, free from the restraints of white civilization.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
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Had I been pliant, abject and a flatterer, I might have succeeded!
The Resources of Quinola: A Comedy in a Prologue and Five Acts
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Her lips plush and pliant, and her tongue pushing into his mouth.
The brief wondrous life of oscar wao
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