- 1soft and able to bend easily the pliant body of a dancer pliant materials
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- 2(sometimes disapproving) willing to accept change; easy to influence or control He was deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor. The government wanted to make the press more pliant.
NAmE//ˈplaɪənsi//
noun [uncountable] adverbSee pliant in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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