acquiesce
verb (used without object)
to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent.
acquiescently
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a word derived from
acquiesce.
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a word derived from
acquiescent.
Example Sentences
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I nodded acquiescently, but didn’t make the questions any easier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
Mrs. Dudley was still for a minute and then, moving her head acquiescently, turned and walked deliberately across the kitchen to a farther doorway.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
She smiled acquiescently at my use of the name by which I had had occasion to call her a few times at our lodging-places.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens
Abruptly, Bellingham swept his papers together, thrust them into the drawer of his desk, and rose acquiescently from his chair.
From The Money Gods by Ellery H. Clark
I was at a loss how to meet it—whether to be indignant and order him out, or to be acquiescently non-committal.
From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott
