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The willow branches were thin and pliant, swaying gently in the wind.pliant = easily bent
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Her pliant nature led her to follow the wrong crowd, resulting in a series of unfortunate events.pliant = easily influenced
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The gymnast's body is incredibly pliant, allowing her to perform complex routines with ease.pliant = flexible
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The jacket is pliant and wind resistant.pliant = flexible so it is easy to move in
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As an apprentice, she was pliant, quickly adapting to the new techniques taught by the master.pliant = able to adapt
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The clay was still pliant, perfect for molding into intricate shapes.pliant = easily shaped
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She is too pliant in the face of pressure, agreeing to things she knows are wrong.pliant = easily influenced or controlled
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"Two days' delay," I said. "And three things within them." He nodded eagerly. "Anything." Now that I had lost, he was pliant. At least he was gracious in victory. (source)pliant = agreeable, or easily influenced
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Flexing her fingers, Tally found that the gloves were soft and pliant, the palms worn pale from years of use. (source)pliant = bendy or flexible
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But you're far easier to control than Amos—children, particularly male children, are so naturally pliant, aren't they? (source)pliant = easily influenced or controlled
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The men needed pliancy in their women friends, and she couldn't bring herself to act coy or silly for their sakes.† (source)pliancy = able to adjust readily to different conditions OR (less commonly) susceptible to being led or directed
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Danny came pliantly enough, but he did not hug her back.† (source)
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no. Thou wast not born to bend The unpliant bow, or to direct the shaft, But here are nobler who shall soon prevail.† (source)unpliant = not easily changed or directedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpliant means not and reverses the meaning of pliant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I knew I needed a pliant friend for my plan, someone I could load up with awful stories about Nick, someone who would become overly attached to me, someone who'd be easy to manipulate, who wouldn't think too hard about anything I said because she felt privileged to hear it. (source)pliant = easily influenced or controlled
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What power in pliancy!† (source)pliancy = able to adjust readily to different conditions OR (less commonly) susceptible to being led or directed
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She trembled in his irresistible bear hug, as pliantly feeble with relief as the stalk of a flower.† (source)
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So that the sentences are pliant as branches and can be read in more ways than one. (source)pliant = flexible or adaptable
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Had she lacked patience, pliancy and dissimulation?† (source)pliancy = able to adjust readily to different conditions OR (less commonly) susceptible to being led or directed
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Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. (source)pliant = easily directed
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