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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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The pliant brain of a newborn infant is shaped in relations with the world mediated by the adults who take care of her, starting with the maternal gaze.
OUR MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON IS IMAGINATION - ISSUE 99: UNIVERSALITYGUIDO TONELLIAPRIL 29, 2021NAUTILUSShe did not speak; she moved her fingers caressingly over his hand, thinking how pliant and feminine, how characteristic, it was.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERTo know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREOther men might find her pliant, pleasing, seductive; he alone knew her as disinterested.
THE LIFE OF NELSON, VOL. I (OF 2)A. T. (ALFRED THAYER) MAHANNot merely tall, but pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree.
HONOR O'CALLAGHANMARY RUSSELL MITFORDIn every American city with a large pliant foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way.
THE OLD WORLD IN THE NEWEDWARD ALSWORTH ROSSHe had a gold watch, and a gold curb chain with large gold seals; and he carried a pliant ebony cane with a gold top.
THE PICKWICK PAPERSCHARLES DICKENSThe Honourable felt a soft carpet under foot, and sat down, fingering the low, pliant lounge.
THE CONQUEST OF ROMEMATILDE SERAOThen the Attorney talks with the most pliant jurors, coaxes them, wheedles them, stimulates them to do what he wants done.
THE TRIAL OF THEODORE PARKERTHEODORE PARKERThe pliant jury found Mr. Cooper guilty, and he was fined $400 and sent to jail for six months.
THE TRIAL OF THEODORE PARKERTHEODORE PARKERSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 16, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO PLIANT
- accommodating
- acquiescent
- adaptable
- agreeable
- amenable
- biddable
- childlike
- complacent
- cool
- docious
- ductile
- easily influenced
- easy
- easygoing
- gentle
- governable
- humble
- laid-back
- manageable
- meek
- mellow
- mild
- obedient
- obliging
- orderly
- pliable
- pliant
- quiet
- resigned
- soft
- tame
- teachable
- tractable
- usable
- weak-kneed
- well-behaved
- willing
- yielding
- adroit
- aesthetic
- artistic
- balletic
- beautiful
- becoming
- comely
- controlled
- curvaceous
- dainty
- decorative
- delicate
- dexterous
- easy
- elastic
- elegant
- exquisite
- fair
- fine
- flowing
- handsome
- harmonious
- limber
- lissome
- lithe
- natural
- neat
- nimble
- pleasing
- pliant
- poised
- practiced
- pretty
- refined
- rhythmic
- seemly
- shapely
- skilled
- slender
- smooth
- springy
- statuesque
- supple
- symmetrical
- tasteful
- trim
- willowy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.