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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

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 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

It looked compromisingly new when it came to me from the shop.

From Seven Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Frank was just about to protest when she added compromisingly: "I'll make some more for lunch."

From The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained by Hope, Laura Lee