1. pliant - Adjective
3. pliant - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryObama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public -- and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history. Charles Krauthammer
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be. Susan Cooper
The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do. Roger Kahn
Our good Lord the Holy Ghost, which is endless life dwelling in our soul, full securely keepeth us; and worketh therein a peace and bringeth it to ease by grace, and accordeth it to God and maketh it pliant. Julian of Norwich
The nobler the tree, the more pliant the twig. Dutch Proverb