malleable
IPA: mˈæɫiʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
- (figurative) Flexible, liable to change.
- (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
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Examples of "malleable" in Sentences
- The metal can be extremely malleable.
- Massive gold is the most malleable metal.
- The metal is soft, malleable, and ductile.
- Textured as in malleable play-doh Eric Bana types?
- That is, the rank order of people in society is malleable.
- The beluga's melon is extremely bulbous and even malleable.
- "I consider it more what I call malleable cinema than interactive," Coppola said.
- They are infinitely malleable, which is their greatest power and their greatest weakness.
- Are people with this kind of malleable opinion and political cynicism what we want in the Presidency?
- Hamsaya relationships between patrons and clients were and remain malleable but strong in Afghan society.
- It is, I think, by accident that he hints at Michael's suggestible nature by referring to his "malleable ear".
- Belief in malleable intelligence is no free lunch - it could easily lead students to waste years of their lives trying and failing.
- Thus, I suspect that students with who believe in malleable intelligence are more likely to go to graduate school despite low test scores.
- All in all, just the Newt's way of working the media so that if he doesn't get another chance at further damaging our country with political partisanship and using Sarah's coattail to get there he'll send Sarah as the substitue "malleable" obstructionist - scary indeed.
- It has already been explained that human nature is the set of dispositions and capacities to believe, desire and act and, as Reid knowledges, that morality can only be focused on those that are malleable, that is sensitive to the environment these occur in, what else are the means to effect this "human nature" than is via the social forces as a key part of this environment?