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Bendable (adj) means Able to be bent, folded or twisted without snapping.

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Able to be bent, folded or twisted without snapping.

"When necessity dictates, our laws are as bendable as licorice to our presidents, and if their private conversations had been taped an awful lot of history would be different now." — Arthur Miller, The Limited Hang-Out: The Dialogues of Richard Nixon as a Drama of the Antihero (1974)

"It was quite a shock to find when one stroked her that the China Cat, though alive, was still china, hard, cold, and smooth to the touch, and yet perfectly brisk and absolutely bendable as any flesh and blood cat." — E. Nesbit (1912)

"The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable." — Emily Carr, Snow (1944)

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