Clues for the word "PLIANT"
We've had 41 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 83 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on April 02, 2025.
Definition of pliant
- v. - Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
- v. - Favorable to pliancy.
Referring Clues
- Yielding
- Flexible
- Accommodating
- Adaptable
- Malleable
- Easily swayed
- Elastic
- Easily bent
- Not hard to convince
- Easily influenced
- Readily bent
- Supple
- Easily flexed
- Yielding one in factory
- Flexible - yielding
- Bending easily
- Flexible or moulded piece of platinum
- One needs to set out to be flexible
- Docile
- One in factory making plastic
- It is involved with a plan that's flexible
- Easily influenced by one in the factory
- That may be bent grass, eg, covering island
- Heads of publicly listed industries all need to be flexible
- Easy to influence
- Supple one cutting plant
- Flexible plant engaged one
- Feel sick rotating with pole in exercise to get supple
- Setter employed in factory is easy to persuade
- Plastic one inside works
- One taken in by spy, easily influenced
- Flexible part broken by turning spike
- 1, perhaps, maintaining one is flexible
- One in factory, yielding
- The willowy plant contains one
- One has to set out to be flexible
- Impressionable
- Adjustable
- Physical training keeps pin-up flexible
- Amenable to bidding
- Easy to bend
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - April 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 04, 2024
- LA Times - September 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 30, 2024
- LA Times - May 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 09, 2023
- New York Times - January 24, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - October 20, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - October 08, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 27, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 19, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - June 04, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 05, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 29, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 05, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 05, 2015
- Guardian Quiptic - September 28, 2015
- Guardian Prize - August 15, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 10, 2015
- New York Times - March 30, 2015
- Guardian Quick - February 20, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 29, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 08, 2014
- And in 53 more crossword puzzles...