Synonyms:
bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy
Meaning: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
Synonyms:
elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant
Meaning: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
Synonyms:
ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile
Meaning: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
Synonyms:
fictile, pliable
Meaning: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
Usage examples
PLIABLE
This was all the religion that poor Pliable ever had.
Obstinate's foul tongue has almost made Pliable a Christian.
'My heart really inclines to go with my neighbour,' said Pliable next.
But Pliable had not knowledge enough of himself to make him ever despond.
'Civil men,' says Thomas Goodwin, 'are this world's saints.' And poor Pliable was one of them.
'Don't revile,' are the first words that come from Pliable's lips, and they are not unpromising words.
Let all public men tempted and afflicted with a facile, pliable, time-serving heart have honest Brodie at their elbow.
When one's body is young, it is very pliable, and hard work will mould it like putty according to the nature of the work.
Our Lord's short preliminary description of Pliable goes, like all His descriptions, to the very bottom of the whole matter.