docile
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Docile means that they don’t usually resist when you try to milk them.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2022
Soon Elisha is approached by undercover operatives from Empower Maryland — a group trying to end debt slavery — while Alex is under pressure to make Elisha behave like a Docile without Dociline.
From New York Times • May 26, 2020
That said, "Docile" is a gripping work of science fiction that punches up in the direction of the current powers that be.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2020
Docile, the landscape might forget we’re even there; vocal, we will survive.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2015
“Different men, different methods. Docile men make very poor soldiers.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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