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pli‧a‧ble/ˈplaɪəbəl/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Old French; Origin : plier; ⇨ pliers]
1. able to bend without breaking or cracking:
　 ▪ a shoe made of soft pliable leather

2. easily influenced and controlled by other people:
　 ▪ Senior officials would have preferred a more pliable government.

—pliability /ˌplaɪəˈbɪləti, ˌplaɪəˈbɪlɪti/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
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THESAURUS
▪soft not hard, firm, or stiff, but easy to press :
　 ▪ a soft mattress
　 ▪ Her skin was lovely and soft.
　 ▪ soft ground
▪tender used about meat or vegetables that are soft and easy to cut, especially because they have been well cooked :
　 ▪ The beef was very tender.
　 ▪ Cook the carrots until tender.
▪soggy very wet and too soft, in a way that seems unpleasant – used about bread, vegetables, and the ground :
　 ▪ soggy cabbage
　 ▪ a piece of soggy bread
　 ▪ The ground was too soggy to walk on.
▪squishy soft and easy to press – used especially about fruit that is too soft, and about soft wet ground which makes a noise when you walk on it :
　 ▪ squishy tomatoes
　 ▪ The leaves were squishy under our feet.
▪squashy British English soft and easy to press – used especially about fruit that is too soft, and about chairs that are soft and comfortable :
　 ▪ The peaches have gone all squashy.
　 ▪ a big squashy sofa
▪mushy used about fruit or vegetables that are very soft, wet, and unpleasant, because they are not fresh or have been cooked for too long :
　 ▪ mushy pieces of banana
　 ▪ a few mushy carrots
▪spongy soft and full of holes that contain air or liquid like a sponge :
　 ▪ a spongy foam
　 ▪ a spongy loaf
　 ▪ His boots sank into the spongy soil.
▪springy used about something that is soft and comes back to its normal shape after being pressed or walked on :
　 ▪ springy turf (=grass)
　 ▪ Her hair felt lovely and springy.
▪pliable /ˈplaɪəbəl/ used about a material or substance that can be bent or pressed without breaking or cracking :
　 ▪ The clay was still pliable and not too dry.
▪yielding literary used about a surface which is soft and will bend when you press it :
　 ▪ yielding flesh

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ High quality leather is firm yet pliable.
▪ The clay should be moistened regularly to keep it soft and pliable.
▪ The system helps make workers more pliable to the demands made by management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Important legal concepts are pliable moulds, into which different creations can be poured.
▪ Instead, I was a pliable, compliant inhabitant of a world of vague feelings and limited comprehension.
▪ It's what makes your hair bouncy and pliable.
▪ It might be merely that they were too used to inflexible fact and far too unused to pliable people.
▪ The physiotherapist usually starts by mobilizing the shoulder girdle, moving it passively in all directions, to make it perfectly pliable.