adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Limbs pliant , reason suspended, she lay in a universe where nothing mattered except that he should not stop.
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Mr Gorbachev has three instruments that, he hopes, will make the press more pliant while falling short of complete censorship.
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She sat rigidly, shaking, incapable of anything other than being there, pliant in his hands.
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The joints of his limbs were so pliant and flexible that he seemed much more like one asleep than dead.
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Their skin feels like day-after-death skin, cold and hard though still faintly pliant .
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Women were the first, the most expendable, the most pliant , and the easiest victims.
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You feel the grit in the clay, the slick surface of the glass, the pliant rubber.