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flexile
[ flek-silor, especially British, -sahyl ]
adjective
- flexible; pliant; tractable; adaptable.
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- flex·ili·ty noun
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Example Sentences
He lay in the Englishwoman's gentle arms—a little brown bundle of flexile limbs and cotton night-shirt.
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On the former supposition, the ovipositor must be remarkably long and flexile to enable the animal to place the eggs on its back.
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The wonder was it did not crack under the strain; but Northern ice ahs the air of being strangely flexile.
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The throwing of an ax was a little matter to the sharp-eyed and flexile-muscled cave men.
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As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
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