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
A month later the recreant lover reappeared and finally married poor disappointed Mary, who died very complaisantly in a short time and left him free to marry his first love, which he quickly did.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
While this was going on Mary danced her square dance complaisantly; and her proud father, looking on, thought that she was by far the prettiest woman in the room.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
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
"Don't say varimess," he corrected her complaisantly; "here it is called dinner!"
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan
