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How to pronounce pliancy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pliability, pliantness, suppleness
Type of adaptability
Derivation pliant
Type Words
Synonyms pliantness, suppleness
Type of bendability, pliability
Derivation pliant

Examples of pliancy

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He seems ignorant of the nature of flesh, with its sensuous pliancy.
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The meat, cooked to about medium, somehow maintained a pliancy I associate more with a rare steak.
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With her docile pliancy and his smooth leadership, they are closer to Astaire and Rogers than anything else available.
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His timbre was bright and his fingers nimble, but the pliancy and grace of his bow strokes were most impressive.
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Unusually for a diverse city of individuals not known for their pliancy, millions of people seem to have listened.
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They enter into progressively deeper meditative absorptions and attain a powerful mental pliancy as a result.
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Just as Hemingway fashioned unreal women of unearthly pliancy, Mailer fashions unreal women of unearthly depravity.
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All three, while forward with fruit and solid in structure, possess a pliancy that makes them drinkable right now.
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That principle was rooted in the concept of pliancy or flexibility, as understood in both a mental and a physical context.
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More examples
  • The property of being pliant and flexible
  • Pliability: adaptability of mind or character; "he was valued for his reliability and pliability"; "he increased the leanness and suppleness of the organization"