pliant
adjective
bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable.
unpliant
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a word derived from
pliant.
Example Sentences
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Somewhat unelastic, unpliant to the age, attached to the old modes of thought and convention—but noble in qualities and defects.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
She had come to him extending, as it were, an olive branch—living, lustrous, full-foliaged; and in return he seemed able to offer nothing beyond a mere splinter-like twig—dry, sapless, unpliant.
From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
Somewhat unelastic, unpliant to the eye, attached to the old modes of thought and convention, but noble in quality and defects; I like her much.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
“He is unpliant, self-sequestered, coarse-grained; beyond all conception easy and phlegmatic.”
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
Thou wast not born to bend The unpliant bow, or to direct the shaft, But here are nobler who shall soon prevail.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
