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Definition
moving and bending easily — sometimes used figuratively to indicate mental flexibility when adapting to different conditions
- He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.p. 15.7
- He held Julia's supple waist easily encircled by his arm.p. 219.8
There are no more uses of "supple" in 1984 by Orwell.
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