All 4 Uses of
docile
in
My Antonia
- It seemed to me that he despised him for being so simple and docile.†
Book 1 *
- It was the soft, amiable Negro voice, like those I remembered from early childhood, with the note of docile subservience in it.†
Book 2
- He was docile and obedient, but when he was six years old he began to run away from home, always taking the same direction.†
Book 2
- At last he tapped his way upstairs, after bowing to everybody, docile and happy.†
Book 2
Definition:
easily led or managed -- perhaps submissive or well-behaved