In many cases a man may be attentive or yielding in a high degree without any sacrifice of his dignity; but he who is obsequious seeks to gain favor by excessive and mean compliances for some selfish end.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example sentences

bearing The mountains stand tall, bearing witness to time.
amenable We are generally amenable to requests of this kind.
tractable It may not be easy, but this problem is tractable.
pliant We need fewer pliant journalists, not more.
mellow Like good wine, women mellow when they age.
acquiescent Tom put his hand over Maria’s shoulder and she gave an acquiescent smile.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
yielding		falling
bearing		falling
amenable		steady
tractable		rising
pliant		rising
mellow		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters: soft¹, weak¹, meek¹
5 letters: lithe¹
6 letters: tender², mellow², docile², supple², flabby², facile², pliant²
7 letters: plastic², bearing², passive², elastic³, pliable³, springy, ductile², cession, flexile, fictile, bowable
8 letters: flexible³, resigned², obedient⁴, amenable⁴, obliging³, bendable, biddable³, yieldful, tractile
9 letters: surrender³, compliant³, indulgent³, malleable⁴, tractable³
10 letters: compliance³, submission³, concession³, manageable⁴, submissive³, obsequious⁴, sequacious
11 letters: susceptible⁴, acquiescent⁴, complaisant³, unresisting
12 letters: conciliatory⁶, acquiescence⁴
13 letters: accommodating⁵
14 letters: relinquishment

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tender² = 2 syllables).