Both Uses of
pliable
in
Gone with the Wind
- But Scarlett intended to marry—and marry Ashley—and she was willing to appear demure, pliable and scatterbrained, if those were the qualities that attracted men.†
Chpt 1.3
- They all loved her but they thought her the sweetest, most pliable of young women, deferential to her elders and without any opinions of her own.†
Chpt 5.49 *
Definition:
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(pliable as in: a pliable individual) susceptible to being led or directed
or less commonly:
able to adjust readily to different conditions