Thesaurus / pliant
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See also synonyms for: pliancy / pliantness
- malleable
- pliable
- supple
- amenable
- ductile
- elastic
- fictile
- flexible
- governable
- limber
- lissome
- manageable
- plastic
- soft
- susceptible
- tractable
- yielding
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These were the slighted impressions on the earth—trace markings made by bare human feet pressing into the pliant mud of ancient lake.
WHAT WE HAVE IN COMMON WITH HUMANS OF 23,000 YEARS AGOSUSANNA SCHROBSDORFFOCTOBER 5, 2021TIMEThe 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 DETAILS OF WEWORK’S UNRAVELING ARE STRANGER THAN FICTIONALLISON STEWARTJULY 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe 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 SERAOWORDS 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
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