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pliant
/ ˈplaɪənt /
adjective
- easily bent; supple
a pliant young tree
- easily modified; adaptable; flexible
a pliant system
- yielding readily to influence; compliant
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Derived Forms
- ˈpliantly, adverb
- ˈpliancy, noun
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Other Words From
- plian·cy pliant·ness noun
- pliant·ly adverb
- non·plian·cy noun
- non·pliant adjective
- non·pliant·ly adverb
- non·pliant·ness noun
- un·plian·cy noun
- un·pliant adjective
- un·pliant·ly adverb
- un·pliant·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pliant1
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Example Sentences
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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