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Definition

easily led or managed — perhaps submissive or well-behaved

docile = easily led or managed

docile = submissive

docile = well-behaved

docile = easily led and managed

Did you think I'd remain a docile pup, wagging my tail and licking the foot that kicks me?
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

docile = easily led or managed

Despite their appearance, they are actually quite docile.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

docile = easily managed

As the days went by, other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come;
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

docilely = in an easily managed manner

From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

docility = tendency to behave

He looked vulnerable, pitiably bewildered, almost harmless. Like someone who had accepted without a sigh of protest the indignities life had doled out to him. Some one both pathetic and admirable in his docility.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

docility = submissiveness and acceptance

She had built that business, with all those people working for her, and it dwarfed my father's business, and all the other businesses in the whole town; she, that docile woman, had a power in her the rest of us couldn't contemplate.
Tara Westover -- Educated

docile = submissive (easily managed)

I did not like to play with Third Wife's daughters, who were as docile and dull as their mother.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

docile = submissive (easily managed)

Still dazed, Hannah accepted the miracle and the prospect of a journey like a docile child.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

docile = easily led or managed

And miraculously — inexplicably — the snake slumped to the floor, docile as a thick, black garden hose, its eyes now on Harry.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

docile = easily managed

[We] show them all the tricks that can save them from death. They listen, they are docile—but when it begins again, in their excitement they do everything wrong.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

docile = easily managed

Given all the signs that a massacre had been imminent, it seems likely that the commanders had been awaiting instruction on whether or not to carry it out, and had wanted to keep the men docile in case the answer was affirmative.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

docile = easily led or managed

Aziza watched the proceedings with a docile look.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

docile = submissive (easily managed)

Sighing, Kit glanced over the docilely bent heads of her charges toward the open doorway, and as she did so a sudden motion caught her attention.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

docilely = in the manner of people who are easily managed

docile = easily managed

Mariam remembered the first time she had seen his eyes, under the wedding veil, in the mirror, with Jalil looking on, how their gazes had slid across the glass and met, his indifferent, hers docile, conceding, almost apologetic.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

docile = submissive (easily managed)

I don't know," he said; his voice had a sound of helpless docility.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

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