compliable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- compliableness noun
- compliably adverb
- uncompliable adjective
- uncompliableness noun
- uncompliably adverb
Etymology
Origin of compliable
Example Sentences
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Why, my dear, it is possible, that you may be more compliable than you have been.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel
The Quartermaster's department and the Adjutant's department are seldom compliable, Lundie; but I'm ready.
From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by Cooper, James Fenimore
Why, Miss, I fancy, if you were to shew a compliable temper, your friends would shew a compliable one too.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel
You must send me no more letters: but a compliable one you may send.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel
Mr. Wheler was taken off,—despair perhaps rendering the man, who had been in opposition futilely before, compliable.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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