complaisant
adjective
inclined or disposed to please; obliging; agreeable or gracious; compliant.
complaisantly
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a word derived from
complaisant.
Example Sentences
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I am glad the United States has shown the world how she treats people of that kind, whom we too often complaisantly ignore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Napoleon occupied the little apartments, and complaisantly made me notice their extreme elegance.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
Strange that the Spaniards should look on complaisantly while English traders from China—Meares and Hanna and Barkley and Douglas—were taking possession of Nootka.
From Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Waving his great bushy tail complaisantly, he tiptoed off to hunt rabbits, pleased with the notion that somebody else was going to get taken in.
From Children of the Wild by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
O you flatterer!" laught the old woman: "but your darling chin that comes forward so complaisantly, and is so ready to wait upon you and spread itself out like a table.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
