The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, a. [F., fr. plier to bend, to fold. See Ply, v.]
Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth. ``Pliable she promised to be.''
--Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster] -- Pli"a*ble*ness, n. -- Pli"a*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a pliable manner
Usage examples of "pliably".
But though Drogo’s flesh was warm, and yielded pliably to handling, there was no breath in him, and the heart in his great chest, almost certainly pierced by the thrust from behind, was stonily still.
Engels pliably submitted and stared at him impassively, until Dudley's right hand crashed into his solar plexus.