PLI'ABLE, adjective [Latin plico.] 1. Easy to be bent; that readily yields to pressure without rupture; flexible; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to moral influence, arguments, persuasion or discipline; as a pliable youth.
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