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was docile
adjective
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Exact(11)
David Brody brought a live Mexican tarantula which he said was docile.
Yet in confinement, he was docile, compliant and innocuous, they said.
True, the pitch was docile but Finn was in grade three among the English seamers.
He was docile in waves of interviews and stressed how he did not want to leave the Yankees.
He says it was docile until a man tried to get a closer look and it hissed.
While the character of the vamp was created to satisfy men's sexual appetites, the ideal woman was docile, submissive and had no sexuality, she said.
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Ricky is docile.
"We are docile," Mr. Bwalya said.
"The first are docile and miserable people...
"The sharks were docile," she said.
In the first half, the fans were docile enough.
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