MALLEABLE = easily influenced, trained, or controlled.
Example:
- Dad wanted me to be a malleable boy who would take his advice.
- Lead is a substance that is malleable is easily bent and shaped.
- The Netherlands saw its colonies as a source of raw material and a malleable workforce.

Synonyms: suggestible, susceptible, impressionable, pliable

THREADBARE = (of material) looking worn and thin from much use.
A threadbare excuse, argument or idea lacks strength and no longer impresses people because it is old or has been used too much: Example:
- Lisa's clothes were faded and threadbare.
- The movie was a tissue of threadbare clichÃs.

Synonyms:
worn, well-worn, old, thin, worn out, holey, moth-eaten,

Author:  The useful vocabulary show

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Published: 2008-04-28

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