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adj- Pliable. Also: Manageable, tractable.

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Usage examples (3)
  • But most artists have got to canalise their emotion and concentrate their energies on some more definite and more maniable problem than that of making something that...
  • "The greatest ships," he writes, "are the least serviceable ...., less nimble, less maniable; 'Grande navi grande fatiga,' saith the Spaniard.
  • And it is no marvel, for as S. Bernard saith of this word invisible: He is not entered by the eyes, for he is not coloured, ne by the ears, for he soundeth not, ne by the...
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