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Definition of "biddable" [bid•da•ble]

  • Games Strong enough to be bid. Used of a hand of cards. (adjective)
  • Following directions or obeying commands; docile. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "biddable" in a sentence
  • "I replied by saying that I'd have spent £1000 buying cappuccinos for Plaid Cymru AMs. Not so much to imply that Ieuan's group are 'biddable', but an admission that the key to the 'Rainbow' was implanting in the consciousness of Plaid Cymru the belief that we have really changed."
  • "For some reason that produced a silence, although Nynaeve did hear someone murmur "biddable" again as if examining the word."
  • "And in their zeal and submissiveness they are so innocently meek and "biddable" that they can listen with reverence to young Hyrum Smith publicly lecturing the grandmothers of the order for occasionally partaking of a cup of thin tea."
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