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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
biddable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For years she'd been so meek, so biddable to this man, and all for what?
▪ Lucinda was tall and beautiful, and most times obedient and biddable.
▪ Men are seen as the enemy and are fought through re-education away from the colonialist ideas that women should be quiet and biddable.
▪ Most professionals were a deferential, biddable lot.
▪ She found Hyacinth, placid and biddable, an agreeable playmate and Mada Joyce a fine source of entertainment.
▪ Valerie was the most biddable of daughters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biddable

Biddable \Bid"da*ble\, a. Obedient; docile. [Scot.]

Wiktionary
biddable

a. 1 docile, amenable or compliant. 2 (context bridge English) Suitable for bidding.

WordNet
biddable

adj. willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"; "a gentle and biddable soul"; "children compliant with the parental will" [syn: acquiescent, compliant]

Usage examples of "biddable".

A year ago it would have shaken her to the core to have her son go against her, but since his rebellion over the annulment he was no longer the sweet, biddable boy she loved.

Betimes more biddable and less dangerous than wizards, and useful for fetching and carrying-but to think that such as these warmed thrones all over Darsar, while many mages were hunted and hated!

When he had first seen her he had deemed her to be a little creep mouse who would be overawed both by him and by becoming a Countess--a biddable girl, in short.

I thought you meek and mild--a biddable girl whom I could marry and forget in a marriage of pure expedience.

For the hundredth time she wished that Margaret was more like her sisters, who possessed bright golden curls, blue eyes, beautiful regular features and elegant figures, together with biddable dispositions.

Naydra was placid and biddable, Lenala was simply stupid, and Pandsala had a sidelong way of glancing at people which Palila thought might be a sign of slyness or intelligence or both.

She would make a magnificent and able servant of Mystra, a better Chosen than he, if she were only biddable enough to obey anyone.

It had been Ellemir after all who had stayed at home, a dutiful and biddable daughter, all these years.

A halter and a lead rope were all she needed with that gentle, biddable mare.

Behind him, his ten lances tried hard to emulate him, their efforts frustrated partially by less biddable mounts.

But then the very point of sending Tristen away was to still the rumors, and if the barons thought him weak and biddable, let them think it only for another dozen days.

Certainly Feliciana was no great beauty, but she was biddable and deft with her needle -both desirable traits in a wife-and one lone mistake in the cloth-mart did not mean she was lacking in wit.

She seemed biddable and clever, although she was not yet two years of age.

They were, as Ussie had foreseen, not biddable and had such short attention spans that he could never get them to strike the right pose, or assume an even halfway cheerful expression.

This was thought best even though we could not make fast time on foot, especially with Ayllia, who walked to our control but must be cared for as a mindless, if biddable, child.