compromise
noun
a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
compromisingly
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a word derived from
compromise.
Example Sentences
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When Bobby-Soxer Shirley Temple falls head over socks for Bachelor Gary Grant, she invades his lair so compromisingly that he is jailed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
It looked compromisingly new when it came to me from the shop.
From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm
They’re compromisingly large, and there’s a strange mixture of orchids and forget-me-nots, roses and gardenias that I don’t quite like.
From Bird of Paradise by Ada Leverson
Finally she said compromisingly to herself that she would make one "square," just one part of her design, to see how it would look.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
