bendable

Etymology

bend + -able

adj

  1. Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
    It was quite a shock to find when one stroked her that the China Cat, though alive, was still china, hard, cold, and smooth to the touch, and yet perfectly brisk and absolutely bendable as any flesh and blood cat. 1912, E. Nesbit, chapter 6, in The Magic World
    The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable. 1944, Emily Carr, “Snow”, in The House of All Sorts
    When necessity dictates, our laws are as bendable as licorice to our presidents, and if their private conversations had been taped an awful lot of history would be different now. 1974, Arthur Miller, “The Limited Hang-Out: The Dialogues of Richard Nixon as a Drama of the Antihero”, in Steven R. Centola, editor, Echoes Down the Corridor, Viking, published 2000, page 145

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