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pliantly

pliantly adverb: in a pliant manner.

Adverb

pliantly (comparative more pliantly, superlative most pliantly)

  1. In a pliant manner.
    • She was tall and pliantly slender, without angularity anywhere.1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

Forms of pliantly

comparativemore pliantly
superlativemost pliantly

Origin of pliantly

From pliant + -ly.

Questions about pliantly

What does pliantly mean?
Pliantly means in a pliant manner.
What part of speech is pliantly?
Pliantly is an adverb.

Words near pliantly in the dictionary

  1. pliableness
  2. pliably
  3. pliancies
  4. pliancy
  5. pliant
  6. pliantly
  7. pliantness
  8. pliars
  9. PLIC
  10. plica
  11. plica polonica

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