malleable

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1. malleable - Adjective

2. malleable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities. Benito Mussolini

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable. Dean Koontz

Rock is much more malleable than ideas. Kim Stanley Robinson

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable... Nicholas Sparks

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. Bono

So if morality is innate, it's certainly malleable. Jerry Coyne

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