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Flexible, pliable
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bendy
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Word definitions for bendy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bendy bus EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He struggled and cried, his arms as bendy as rubber. ▪ It's bendy , you can make it into any shape, you know the one? ▪ Its tail dangled useless, like the broken arm of a bendy rubber ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bendy \Ben"dy\, a. [From Bend a band.] (Her.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. --Cussans.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the ability to be bent easily. 2 (context informal English) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily. n. (context heraldry English) A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
Usage examples of bendy.
He became an expert, and worked for the Cabal for ten years before the Bendy murder.
All bendy rubber and portly and scowling, he had the word CREW painted in large letters across his belly.
But then on the inside it opens up into a swarm of bendy little arms, and those arms split up into arms that split.
In the booze-lined defile under the bendy mirror, Fat Vince and Fat Paul, two generations of handyman-and-bouncer talent, assembled beer crates with simian stoop.
I ate a lot of pub grub: bendy sausages, gingerbaked beans, a trough of cottage pie.
The set of the mouth defines the face, as if glimpsed in a bendy old mirror and catching a fault along the parting line yes, and with a swirl of dust and flecking on the glass.
In the bendy mirror behind the bar I saw him leave, woodenly, stung, scared.
Lucy thought it made us look like burglars and told me to go back and put it on top of the car, which meant five more minutes wrestling with bendy bungies.
He became an expert, and worked for the Cabal for ten years before the Bendy murder.
In the bendy mirror behind the bar I saw him leave, woodenly, stung, scared.
There were Irish families crammed into basements, and pregnant housewives chain-smoking on the stoops, and bendy old men in flares and parched gym-shoes drinking tinned beer under the warm breath of the coin-op.
But his knees were the knees seen through that bendy leaded window, seen by that brute of a crow, which was watching him and harshly purring.
All the girls, all the women, got bendier and coilier and craftieruntil you came to Gina.
He would not look at me as he offered the water with a little bendy straw in it.
He found one of those cups with the little bendy straws and brought it to me.