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docile
adjective as in compliant, submissive
Example Sentences
Lives are altered as the salon workers go about their day braiding the hair of customers who range from docile and caring to feisty and acrimonious.
Last season, almost 90% of the animals caught in NSW's nets were not target species – including 11 critically endangered, and largely docile, grey nurse sharks.
Scientists had thought chimps were docile vegetarians, but on this day about three months after her arrival, Goodall spied a group of the apes feasting on something pink.
“And boy, if my memory serves, those droids were there just to serve humanity; so docile, nothing frightening about them.”
In such gruelling conditions, on such a docile pitch, it is to England's credit they maintained their energy throughout the day.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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