docility

In studies of humans and mice, those genes influence endurance, weight-bearing ability and docility.

When the principal threatens to get Child Services involved with Robin’s case, Theo is willing to try anything to keep from medicating his son into an appropriate state of docility.

Drugs keep the docile human population in “Chemical Serenity,” glued to “pain and sex” shows on television.

Only then, the idea goes, were canines docile enough for people to train as helpers.

He wanted purity, docility, absolute devotion to her husband—and plump white arms.

In every important political step, de Brus followed with docility his father's lead.

If properly managed, cattle may be trained with all the docility, intelligence, and much of the activity of the horse.

And with the same childlike docility she repaired to her chamber, and betook herself to slumber.

These truculent ruffians (when they have thoroughly earned a thrashing) will often accept it with most edifying docility.

She would play for time; she must pretend docility and meet quiet guile with guile.