pliant

Etymology

From Middle English pliaunt, from Old French ploiant, present participle of ploiier (“to fold”).

adj

1. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking
   a pliant thread  pliant wax
   Whether in its northern or southern home, the black-throated blue warbler builds its nest of bark, roots, and other pliant material, loose and rather bulky, in a variety of saplings, bushes, and weeds, but always a few inches or a few feet from the ground. 1917 April, “The Warblers of North America”, in The National Geographic Magazine
2. (figurative) Easily influenced; tractable.
   Yet there was pleasant sadness that became Meetly the gentle heart and pliant sense, In that same idlesse—gazing on that brook 1839, William Gilmore Simms, “The Brooklet”, in Southern Passages and Pictures, New York: George Adlard, page 2
   [The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear. 1988, A. J. Langguth, Patriots