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
The city man acquiescently nodded his head but he was thinking chiefly of the calm patience and the tireless strenuousity with which McGivins, himself, was battling against calamity.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
She moved to the door acquiescently and switched out the light, he following.
From Married Life The True Romance by May Edginton
Smiling acquiescently, therefore, this person returned in their midst, and receiving a new weapon, his own club having been absent-mindedly mislaid, he again set forth warily to the encounter.
From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah
