[Vocabulary] malleable schedule

[ChessEnthusiast]

Is this use of "malleable" correct?

Just let me know when you have time. I can easily adapt. My schedule is really malleable.

 

[Eckaslike]

I would use "flexible".

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/flexible

 

[ChessEnthusiast]

There is no doubt that "flexible" suits this sentence better.
However, the reason why I created this thread is that I'd like to get a better understanding of contexts in which the word in question can be used.

 

[Rover_KE]

I too prefer 'flexible', and I was surprised to see 'malleable' used in this sense by so many different people on Fraze.It.

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[GoesStation]

There is no doubt that "flexible" suits this sentence better.
However, the reason why I created this thread is that I'd like to get a better understanding of contexts in which the word in question can be used.

You can use malleable​ to describe a person who is easily swayed by the last person he talked to, or to describe a soft metal like gold. You can even use it to describe a person with gold-colored hair who is easily swayed by the last person he's spoken with. It doesn't work for a schedule.

 

[Tdol]

It doesn't collocate for me either.

 

[konungursvia]

I would only use malleable for physically plastic and bendy things.

 

[GoesStation]

I would only use malleable for physically plastic and bendy things.

It's also used for personalities.

 

[SoothingDave]

Or opinions, etc. If someone can be easily persuaded.

 

[GoesStation]

Here's something using the word I've just read in the New York Times: 'The word for truth in Russian that most Americans know is “pravda” — the truth that seems evident on the surface. It’s subjective and infinitely malleable....'