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pliant ADJ

pliant N

pliant ADJ

pliant

be pliant VB

make pliant VB

making flexible or pliant

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The flesh is thin but pliant, grayish or pallid, cartilaginous, and lacks any distinctive odor and taste.
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It competently absorbs rough sections and bad roads thanks to its pliant suspension and tyres.
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The elm's wood bends well and distorts easily making it quite pliant.
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Her face remains deliberately expressionless but her elegantly arched feet, long limbs and pliant back convey oodles of emotion.
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Many of us instead secretly pine for somebody similarly pliant and low-paid to serve us at home.
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Though cats sit happily on a hard surface, they only knead a soft or pliant surface, although some cats reflexively march on hard surfaces instead of kneading them.
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Administration retaliated by focusing on agitators within the heretofore self-selective service clubs, suspending the clubs and then reorganizing them later with a more pliant membership.
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House-elves are generally obedient, pliant, and obsequious; and when enslaved, wear discarded items like pillowcases and tea-towels.
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All of the bones in his body, including his skull, are malleable and his muscle tissue is exceedingly resilient, making his body very flexible and pliant.
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When putting out force it must pass through, penetrate, pierce, connect, be pliant, ferocious, round, firm, have a shaking-cutting strength, and deliver explosive force.
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