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

“Not so very fine,” answered Nancy, fingering a streamer 224 of her pink sash with a tender touch, as she glanced complaisantly down at her lingerie frock.

From The Motor Maids Across the Continent by Stokes, Katherine

Then streams at times complaisantly abandoned their old channels and formed new ones, leaving the intended reservoirs high and dry after the most deluging rains.

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland

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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

The emperor complaisantly affected to know no better, catching at everything to keep up his hopes; when all at once the first snows fell.

From The Two Great Retreats of History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)