What's the difference between acquiescent and biddable?
Acquiescent
Definition:
(a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(2) As a leader writer on a liberal newspaper I feel a bit of duty to acquiesce, but my answer is, "only up to a point".
(3) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(4) Tiny Qatar, the richest of them all, leads the region in using wealth to provide subsidised education and food to buy the acquiescence if not the loyalty of their people – who in several countries are outnumbered by expatriate foreigners.
(5) Contrary to past survey research, less educated respondents were no more likely to exhibit acquiescence than better educated respondents.
(6) The conservatives are unlikely to acquiesce without a fight, and Francis now risks criticism of his papacy up to the highest level, including the bishops – who have so far kept their counsel.
(7) Silence is acquiescence,” said Jorge Guajardo, a former Mexican ambassador to China, who argued that the country’s politicians could no longer hope to avoid provoking Trump by staying silent.
(8) Despite that crucial fact, WikiLeaks has been crippled by a staggering array of extra-judicial punishment imposed either directly by the US and allied governments or with their clear acquiescence.
(9) The resignation this week of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi , whom the Obama administration had cultivated to permit drone strikes, has left many in US security circles wondering if a post-Hadi government will prove as acquiescent.
(10) Either the Polish government reverses its moves to limit the independence of the judiciary, or Europe is seen to acquiesce in the further spread of illiberalism among its own ranks.
(11) – his presence ensured that the issue took its place in a mess of other grievances, about his broken vow on tuition fees, the Lib Dems' acquiescence in austerity, and his own alleged uselessness.
(12) "Some kind of association with the UN – or some kind of Anglo-American trusteeship – could meet our requirements if only the Argentinians could be brought to acquiesce to it," Sir Robert Armstrong, the cabinet secretary, advised Thatcher on 25 May.
(13) Her physician considers acquiescing and risking a premature delivery, transferring the patient to a compliant physician, or obtaining a court order to force treatment.
(14) "For the most part the rewards for acquiescing to GOC demands are risible: pomp-full dinners and meetings and, for the most pliant, a photo op with one of the Castro brothers.
(15) Standardization procedures have reduced markedly the acquiescence factor and the correlations among the dysphoric affect scales in the MAACL-R.
(16) This added to the deflationary impact of higher import prices arising from the massive – but necessary – devaluation of the pound in which the Treasury and the Bank of England had acquiesced.
(17) Jeremy Corbyn is criticised in much of the media for questioning a system that engorges a tiny minority of wealthy executives while buying the acquiescence of millions through a pampered existence of material excess.
(18) You cannot expect a child to acquiesce when you want them to, and then magically grow up to "know their own mind".
(19) There are clear connections between campaigns to defeat bills that would improve the health of blacks and other disadvantaged groups and acquiescence with the present reassignment of them to the underfunded, overcrowded, inferior, public health-care sector.
(20) Abbott has some points of easy agreement with this group, and has acquiesced already on a substantial proportion of the IPA's policy wish-list.
Biddable
Definition:
(a.) Obedient; docile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without the moderate Davutoğlu, a former foreign minister, to balance and temper Erdoğan’s behaviour, and with a more biddable prime minister in his place – reports suggest Erdoğan’s son-in-law, the energy minister Berat Albayrak, may get the job – the precarious EU refugee agreement could soon be in serious jeopardy.
(2) These officers are, evidence has shown, entirely biddable.
(3) It can never further harmony, however, that anyone who has done a stint of full-time childcaring, on a reasonable income, will know exactly what a privileged SAH mother means by "a difficult job" – in a home equipped with labour-saving devices – once a biddable child is over three.
(4) What if, instead of choosing Truman – whom the pair psychopathologise as having unresolved "gender issues" and portray as weak, biddable and blustering ("To err is Truman," 1940s Republicans sneered) – as Roosevelt's vice-presidential candidate in the 1944 presidential election, the Democratic convention had once more chosen the now little-known Henry Wallace to be FDR's running mate?
(5) Thus, cut out of one of the most important decisions on his own company, he promises to be a more biddable, accommodating figure than Mr Hester – whose opposition to speeding up the sale of RBS is what got him chucked overboard.
(6) Analysing a genome, stripping out the surplus genes, recreating the rest artificially and then inserting the new chromosome into a cell from which the existing one had been removed – all this is merely the modern equivalent of spotting the fact that it would be a good idea to breed from the fattest and most biddable sheep.
(7) And, some on the right would whisper in the ears of biddable journalists, the poor really had no place in the world’s biggest property bubble.
(8) He was easygoing and biddable, with a genuine smile and ceaseless energy.
(9) It is clear that the most visible of the sons, Saif and Saadi, have their own lines of communication and influence with the various state security organs, not all of whom are as easily biddable as they would like.