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manipulable

ma·ni·pu·lable

UK/məˈnɪpjʊləbəl/ uncommon

adjective

1.

easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

  • “tractable young minds”
  • “gold is tractable”
  • “the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition” Samuel Butler

Origin

1859, from manipulate + -able.

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