Definition of "pliably" []

• In a pliable manner (adverb)

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• "Tomorrow, too, the camp at their backs would be dismantled of its improvised defences, the husbandman would come back to his farmhouse, bringing his beasts with him, and return imperturbably to the care of his land and his stock, as his forebears had done time after time, giving ground pliably for a while to marauding enemies they knew they could out-wait, outrun and outlast."
• "Our politics have become the smart or thoughtful and literate against the masses of pliably ignorant who send money to rabble rousers and lay hands on their TV sets for salvation."
• "On this point, Davis would make a far better leader than Cameron, but not so sure he can sell out to the needs of the marketing man/public focus groups as pliably."