All 4 Uses
docile
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My Antonia
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(docile) easily led or managed -- perhaps submissive or well-behaved
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)