All 3 Uses of
flexible
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Mr. Elder thundered his answer, while the others nodded, solemnly and in tune, like a shop-window of flexible toys, comic mandarins and judges and ducks and clowns, set quivering by a breeze from the open door: "All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock.†
Chpt 4flexible = bendable or adaptable
- He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.†
Chpt 17 *
- Because at some more flexible period he had advanced from oranges to grape-fruit he considered himself an epicure.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
bendable or adaptable
in various senses, including:
- easily bent without physical damage or injury -- as of a hose or gymnast
- able to adjust readily to different conditions -- as of a plan
- willing to make concessions -- as of a negotiator or a boss