Vocabulary
Pliant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
easily influenced or directed; yielding.
Urdu meaning
لچکدار، کھینچے جانے کے قابل
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Bureaucracy, instead of being the steel frame of our administration, comprises mostly pliant officers, willing to fulfil all the improper demands of the rulers.
- A pliant silence prevails in the corridors of power.
- Some say that since senior IHC judges had gone public about establishment pressures, a head seen as pliant was deemed necessary to exclude them from PTI cases and key court roles.
- The government made sure that the bench was packed with pliant judges.
- The country is now witnessing creeping authoritarianism facilitated by a pliant judiciary.
Synonyms
compliant, biddable, docile, tractable, yielding, malleable, manageable, governable
Antonyms
inflexible, unadaptable, unformed
Curator example
“a more pliant prime minister”
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