Both Uses of
pliant
in
The House of Mirth
- She had expected to find Lily headstrong, critical and "foreign"—for even Mrs. Peniston, though she occasionally went abroad, had the family dread of foreignness—but the girl showed a pliancy, which, to a more penetrating mind than her aunt's, might have been less reassuring than the open selfishness of youth.†
Chpt 1.3
- Had she lacked patience, pliancy and dissimulation?†
Chpt 1.3 *
Definition:
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(pliant as in: a pliant individual) able to adjust readily to different conditions
or less commonly:
susceptible to being led or directed