tractable

• The beasts were wonderfully tractable, as if they knew that the treatment was for their good. —  SICK HEART RIVER
• The moralities of the Epistles were more tractable, and formed the largest contribution to the Florilegia , or flower-collections, that were circulated by themselves. —  Horace and His Influence
• These are 'easy' because they're tractable, although they can obviously involve some very challenging science. —  Evolution News & Views
• Aunt Maude had not proved tractable, and Richard's income would be small. —  Mistress Anne
• Therefore his parishioners troubled him very little; and but for the influence which in hours of Montfydget activity, Mrs. Leslie exercised over the most tractable--that is, the children and the aged--not half-a-dozen persons would have known or cared whether he shut up his church or not But our family were seated in state in their old seignorial pew, and Mr. Dumdrum, with a nasal twang, went lugubriously through the prayers; and the old people who could sin no more, and the children who had not yet learned to sin, croaked forth responses that might have come from the choral frogs in Aristophanes. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

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