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tractable
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synonyms: soft-minded, pliant ???
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Definition:easy to control or influence
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“it is now very plain, from all you have spoken, that whatever share of reason the Yahoos pretend to, the Houyhnhnms are your masters; I heartily wish our Yahoos would be so tractable.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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I never heard any harm of her; and I dare say she is one of the most tractable creatures in the world.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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If I had let him stay three or four days without food, and then have carried him some water to drink and then a little corn, he would have been as tame as one of the kids; for they are mighty sagacious, tractable creatures, where they are well used.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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The spirit which served her was growing intractable: she could neither lay nor control it.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Mihailov again tried to say that that was how he understood Pilate, but his lips quivered intractably, and he could not pronounce the words.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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