Meanings (ES + gloss)
flexible
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking.
a pliant thread
pliant wax
manejable
Easily influenced; tractable.
Yet there was pleasant sadness that became Meetly the gentle heart and pliant sense, In that same idlesse—gazing on that brook
[The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear.
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