3 uses
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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
- He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.Chapter 17 (94% in)
- 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.Chapter 4 (86% in)
- Because at some more flexible period he had advanced from oranges to grape-fruit he considered himself an epicure.Chapter 24 (25% in)
There are no more uses of "flexible" in Main Street.
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