Definition of Pliable

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Pliable

Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.

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Pliable Quotations

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Quentin Crisp

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xun Zi

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
Philip Zimbardo

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Tia Carrere

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.
Brett Hull

Pliable Translations

pliable in German is biegsam

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