docility

docile | American Dictionary

docile
adjective
us/ˈdɑs·əl, -ˌɑɪl/
calm in manner and easy to control:
They have a big dog, but he’s real friendly and docile.

Examples of docile

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In addition, low objective and subjective efficacy was found to promote docile behaviour.
Even in the 1930s, women were not invariably 'docile' or compliant workers.
So, taking all other effects into account, more docile and less proactive behaviour significantly increases depressive mood.
Perhaps the intolerance acknowledges that intellect, no matter how docile, can never be tamed once and for all.
They spoke of women workers as ' docile ' and ' passive ', needing to supplement male wages rather than support a household.
These results support the general notion that being efficacious contributes to less docile and to more proactive behaviour.
The relation between objective efficacy and docile\\proactive behaviour received empirical support.
But as a result of its own excesses, power fails to always produce docile bodies and profit-seeking agents.
Even a well-liked fosterling meant above all cash income to the foster parents, as well as cheap and docile labour.
These ' friendly ' chiefs, who had proved their capacity to be docile, were to be allowed to remain.
That's what really struck me was that all the animals, even the 71 elephants, appear quite docile.
The association between subjective efficacy and docile\\proactive behaviour is less strong.
The aim is not punishment but correction through discipline, producing docile bodies which are suited to a quiescent work force.
Among more docile regions, there is even less evidence of allocation responding to need.
The negative expectation from women found further amplification in both employers' and unions' stereotyping women as 'docile' and manageable workers.
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