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pliant

adjective as in yielding under influence

adjective as in yielding under physical pressure

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Example Sentences

Expandable foam earplugs are made of pliant material designed to conform to the shape of the ear canal.

The marshmallows were perfectly square and pliant, and its kits even come with moist towelettes—the one thing I wish I had at nearly every s’mores bonfire gathering.

It’s a steely core—the ability to coolly rise above hardship, or to bend in the wind, zen-like and pliant.

From Quartz

These were the slighted impressions on the earth—trace markings made by bare human feet pressing into the pliant mud of ancient lake.

From Time

The IPO was canceled, Neumann was pushed out by his formerly pliant board of directors, and WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, couldn’t even lay off employees because it couldn’t afford severance packages.

The ad reminds readers that there is no income tax in Texas, that the state has budget surpluses and “pliant labor laws.”

Bank bosses who refused were simply replaced with pliant sycophants.

He called that pliant decision the biggest mistake of his presidency.

She did not speak; she moved her fingers caressingly over his hand, thinking how pliant and feminine, how characteristic, it was.

To know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.

Other men might find her pliant, pleasing, seductive; he alone knew her as disinterested.

Not merely tall, but pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree.

In every American city with a large pliant foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way.

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pliant, such as: compliant, docile, pliable, obedient, tractable, and yielding.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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