pliant 的定义
- bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- easily influenced; yielding to others; compliant: He has a pliant nature.
pliant 近义词
yielding under influence
yielding under physical pressure
adaptable
更多pliant例句
- 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.
- 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.
- The ad reminds readers that there is no income tax in Texas, that the state has budget surpluses and “pliant labor laws.”
- Bank bosses who refused were simply replaced with pliant sycophants.
- He called that pliant decision the biggest mistake of his presidency.
- She did not speak; she moved her fingers caressingly over his hand, thinking how pliant and feminine, how characteristic, it was.
- To know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.
- Other men might find her pliant, pleasing, seductive; he alone knew her as disinterested.
- Not merely tall, but pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree.
- In every American city with a large pliant foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way.