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adj. - Able to bend easily

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Usage examples (32)
  • Its flexile arch; -- throne of expression's charm.
  • The fountains piled their flexile columns of spray and waved them to and fro.
  • These poems are exceedingly sweet and touching; yet they are all marked by the same flexile use of difficult rhythms and unprecedented rhymes.
  • The collodion flexile forms a coating or protecting film, which excludes the air, while the sedative liniments allay the irritation, generally of no trivial nature.
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