pliant / ˈplaɪ ənt /

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pliant 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
  2. easily influenced; yielding to others; compliant: He has a pliant nature.

pliant 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

yielding under influence

pliant 的近义词 6
pliant 的反义词 2
adj. 形容词 adjective

yielding under physical pressure

pliant 的近义词 8
pliant 的反义词 2
adj. 形容词 adjective

adaptable

更多pliant例句

  1. The IPO was canceled, Neumann was pushed out by his formerly pliant board of directors, and WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, couldn’t even lay off employees because it couldn’t afford severance packages.
  2. The pliant brain of a newborn infant is shaped in relations with the world mediated by the adults who take care of her, starting with the maternal gaze.
  3. The ad reminds readers that there is no income tax in Texas, that the state has budget surpluses and “pliant labor laws.”
  4. Bank bosses who refused were simply replaced with pliant sycophants.
  5. He called that pliant decision the biggest mistake of his presidency.
  6. She did not speak; she moved her fingers caressingly over his hand, thinking how pliant and feminine, how characteristic, it was.
  7. To know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.
  8. Other men might find her pliant, pleasing, seductive; he alone knew her as disinterested.
  9. Not merely tall, but pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree.
  10. In every American city with a large pliant foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way.