compliable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- compliableness noun
- compliably adverb
- uncompliable adjective
- uncompliableness noun
- uncompliably adverb
Etymology
Origin of compliable
Example Sentences
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"So, if we don't get the permits, or if the permits are not acceptable and not compliable, we will have no option but to 'not' go ahead," he said.
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Mr. Wheler was taken off,—despair perhaps rendering the man, who had been in opposition futilely before, compliable.
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Why, my dear, it is possible, that you may be more compliable than you have been.
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Why, Miss, I fancy, if you were to shew a compliable temper, your friends would shew a compliable one too.
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But there was no employment for any in capital causes, excepting for those I have already mentioned; because Antonius, who was always courted on these occasions, was very ready to give his service; and Crassus, though not so compliable, generally consented, on any pressing sollicitation, to give his.
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