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

"Your former pupil has surprised us all," he said, complaisantly, to Doctor Fabian.

From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

"Now I could do it," she said, complaisantly.

From As Seen By Me by Bell, Lilian

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 Trollope, Anthony

"Let yours show but the greater wrath," advised the king, complaisantly.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart