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Biddable   /bˈɪdəbəl/   Listen
Biddable

adjective
1.
Willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest.  Synonym: acquiescent.






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"Biddable" Quotes from Famous Books



... allegiances belonging to the conduct of what was and still remains the most scrupulously cultivated of our periodicals. When Clemens began to write for it he came willingly under its rules, for with all his wilfulness there never was a more biddable man in things you could show him a reason for. He never made the least of that trouble which so abounds for the hapless editor from narrower-minded contributors. If you wanted a thing changed, very good, he changed it; if you suggested that a word or a sentence or a paragraph had better be ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Biddable" :   bid, obedient



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