docile

• “I think that the term "docile" is the term that troubles me most.”

  What Everyone Else Is Saying

• “You are to remain docile while in transit to the holding facility.”

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• “Every policy discussed to date has as its objective feeding people where they are and forcing them to remain docile, even when and if starving, by armed forces.”

  Food

• “Her eyes had never wandered from his face; she had stood in docile wise looking at him and answering his questions and listening, won by the commentary she read in his face on what her friend was saying.”

  The Old Helmet

• “-- but I have always associated the word docile with cows.”

  evolver Diary Entry

• “As Nicholls puts it, Kauto Star, normally known as a docile and placid beast, is "mad fresh, really well in himself", having been brought to peak fitness for today's King George VI Chase at Kempton, which he has dominated over the past four years.”

  The Guardian: Paul Nicholls has Kauto Star ready for historic King George Chase bid

• “They seem to have been a somewhat negative people, generally described as docile, gentle, generous, and indolent.”

  Cuba, Old and New

• “For the man with one leg, it is to be said that he is more docile, which is to be desired.”

  The Purchase Price

• “As he leads the hounds on he will cheer and encourage them, addressing with many a soft term the docile creature, the self-willed, stubborn brute more rarely, and to a moderate extent the hound of average capacity, till he either succeeds in running down or driving into the toils some victim.”

  The Sportsman

• “He believed the fluoride in drinking water was there to render the masses more docile, which is why he wouldn't drink from a tap.”

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