docile
Origin of docile
1Other words for docile
Other words from docile
- doc·ile·ly, adverb
- do·cil·i·ty [do-sil-i-tee, doh-], /dɒˈsɪl ɪ ti, doʊ-/, noun
Words Nearby docile
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How to use docile in a sentence
His loud, often profane way had been exchanged for a more docile demeanor.
The harder she looks, the more she sees beneath the “docile surface” of the streets.
Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas | Ron Charles | July 13, 2021 | Washington PostSometimes large dogs need a heavy-duty crate even though their personality is docile.
Best dog crate: These indestructible pet products for the home keep your pup cozy and safe | Irena Collaku | July 13, 2021 | Popular-ScienceShe is the docile Earth-mother who generously balances and protects the environment and all its inhabitants.
They note that the bowheads, which had initially been docile, started using the sea ice to avoid harpoons.
Sperm whales have a surprisingly deep—and useful—culture | Ellie Shechet | March 19, 2021 | Popular-Science
She also features a more natural face than the one of docile serenity so often bestowed on the Queen of Heaven.
For the first few years, the public was fairly docile in response to the school wars.
Hunger Games Comes to New York State’s Public Schools | Zephyr Teachout | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe middle classes,” Satyarthi once told the BBC, want “cheap, docile labour.
Kailash Satyarthi, Malala's Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner, Is Fighting India's Child Slavery Epidemic | Dilip D’Souza | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe tabloids demand that Kate Middleton be as docile as Jane Seymour, whose personal motto was “Bound to obey and serve.”
Spivack, meanwhile, continues to promise her American clients docile, submissive partners.
The House’s Immigrant Betrayal With New Violence Against Women Act | Michelle Goldberg | May 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is the young animals of these species which are the most social and docile and most approach man in appearance.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisIt consisted in subjecting some of the docile herbivora more fully to human mastership.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisShe tried to turn a docile face toward old Kano; but the deepening glory of her husband's look drew her as light draws a flower.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaInstead of creating men, a perfect God ought to have created only docile and submissive angels.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierWe have always been taught to think a nation sound and safe whose women were docile and domestic.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona Caird
British Dictionary definitions for docile
/ (ˈdəʊsaɪl) /
easy to manage, control, or discipline; submissive
rare ready to learn; easy to teach
Origin of docile
1Derived forms of docile
- docilely, adverb
- docility (dəʊˈsɪlɪtɪ), noun
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