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pliant(adjective) Easily bent or flexed; pliable. Synonyms: bendableUsage: The connections of the several sections of the raft are slack and pliant, so that the raft may be readily bent into any sort of curve required by the shape of the river.
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This is both freakin' hilarious and apropos... Goats on Wobbly Metal
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1: yielding readily without breaking : bending or folding easily : flexible, workable, lithe
<modeled in the pliant material and then … hardened — Nathaniel Hawthorne> <a girl … with a slim, pliant figure — Inez Karma & Gilbert Millstein>
2: easily influenced : yielding
<had a pliant congressional majority — A. S. Link>
3: suitable, apt
<which I observing, took once a pliant hour — Shakespeare>
4: lending itself to varied uses : adaptable
<a pliant style> <the clarinet … a very fluent and pliant instrument — Winthrop Sargeant>
Origin of PLIANT
Middle English pliaunt, from Middle French pliant, present participle of plier to bend, ply
First Known Use: 14th century (sense 1)
Synonyms:
bendy [chiefly British], flexible, limber, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, pliable, willowy, supple
Antonyms:
inflexible, rigid, stiff, stiffened
Related Words:
adaptable, ductile, elastic, fluid, kneadable, malleable, modifiable, plastic, variable, yielding; droopy, flaccid, floppy, limp; semiflexible
Near Antonyms:
inelastic, nonmalleable, unyielding; breakable, brittle, fragile
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Autumn ... the season I have loved ... still have the power to call me back. This grief and that are mingled in my thoughts, and only this I know; that hateful is this pliant world's decay and all its ways.
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From "A Tramp Abroad" written by Mark Twain.
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A QUESTION FOR GOD. WHY MUST WE HAVE SO MUCH EVIL ? IS IT TO BALANCE THE GOOD? IS THIS PLIANTCY?
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In poetry:
The lovely pliant strength is yours To yield, yet win your ends. You have the weeping sympathy With which the willow bends;
"Immortal Eve - III" by Manmohan Ghose
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This proves the existence of God, for only the Almighty could have foreseen the intense comedic value in pairing sheet metal with goats. thx, exy.
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And cats with printers....( Chris Cohen walks with the Angels  )
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