Pliant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLIANT in dictionary:

VERB:
• Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
• Favorable to pliancy.
ADJECTIVE:
• easily bent
• easily influenced or directed; yielding
• capable of being influenced or formed
• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
• able to adjust readily to different conditions
• capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
• pliable

Words related to PLIANT

pliable11 pliancies13 pliancy14 pliantly13

Words that contain PLIANT

pliantly13 unpliant10 compliant15 nonpliant11 suppliant13 pliantness12 suppliants14 compliantly20 incompliant17 suppliantly18 uncompliant17 pliantnesses14 noncompliant18 compliantness19 incompliantly22 compliantnesses21

How to use PLIANT in a sentence

• The acquaintance speedily drifted into intimacy, and the girl became the pliant tool of Birchill, who acquired an almost magnetic influence over her.
• But he found that the rival whom he had set up was by no means a pliant tool in his hands, and he then turned against Matilda.
• There was a fine polish about his whole person, and a pliant, insinuating style in his conversation, that was, socially, quite irresistible.
• But in passing he bent down a very pliant bough, which, when released, flew back and hit my peaceful steed sharply on the legs.
• To the minister the children look up, and their pliant faces are moulded by his plastic hand.
• Now, with her rigidity suddenly become so pliant that it was a fluid thing mixed of indignation, fearlessness, and compelling sympathy, she sprang to his side.
• He was a creature happily pliant to the rule of all his whims.
• The woods which adorn the central ridge of the island are very full in foliage, and, in August, showed the tender green and pliant leaf of June elsewhere.
• But he was overwhelmed by the girl and her young pliant warmth.
• It was a little too uncompromising for Melancthon, a little too pliant and yielding for Luther.
• Ferdinand and Maximilian resolved that he should no longer have access to the ear of the pliant monarch, but he could be removed from the court only by violence.
• He kept coming nearer and nearer to the land, led by the gentle, continuous strain of the pliant top, though ever and anon he would vainly try to head away again into deep water.
• At my pliant age I soon acquired the refinements of language and manner which characterized my mistress.
• The children, without knowing exactly what has happened, will feel different, and will be pliant and easy to manage.
• The original moisture is removed by a substance, chiefly consisting of a very fine sand, beautifully compounded with other materials, and spread over a hard pliant stuff.
• To shift them from place to place, to exclude them from their native soil, to render them cosmopolitan and pliant was the first care of the founder.
• It was eighteen inches long, three inches broad, heavy, and pliant.
• Her free pliant figure was the very perfection of female grace and beauty.
• Pitt, however, did not find his majesty so pliant on the Monday, as he expected, and he was doomed to experience a complete disappointment of his views and hopes.
• The fire-bow was a stout bar of ash, hickory, or other pliant wood, one end of which was firmly set in the earth.
• So she rambled along the creek one afternoon, armed with hook and line on a pliant willow in search of sport.
• Immovable to harsh reproof, he was pliant as the bending ozier to persuasive kindness.
• Beautiful and childlike was he, Brave as man is, soft as woman, Pliant as a wand of willow, Stately as a deer with antlers.
• With the mothers are a group of girls of ten or twelve, who are learning sewing at an earlier age, when fingers are more pliant and less like to thumbs.
• There is the strain and burst of a burden of racial feeling to utter itself in the most pliant and eloquent of all the languages of emotion.
• We ask that she remain a pliant vine, and that she be not made into the rugged oak.
• No one has such power over the tree as he who plants and tends it while yet it is a pliant sapling.
• There was reason to anticipate that the formidable Selim would be found less pliant than Cansu Alguri.
• It was a pliant and liberal expression of ideals, inwardly grounded and spontaneously pursued.
• It leads to practical passive obedience far better than all the doctrines which the pliant accommodation of theology to power has ever produced.
• Circumstances had evolved him, during the course of twenty years, into something different, as persistent winds evolve a pliant tree into another than its typical shape.

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