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Just don't expect their meanings to settle too biddably into your lap.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2022

"Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel."

From Time Magazine Archive

Very biddably, the wife reached it down out of the little black hole over the mantelshelf, and the Colonel laughed.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)