obliging
willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
Origin of obliging
1Other words for obliging
Other words from obliging
- o·blig·ing·ly, adverb
- o·blig·ing·ness, noun
- un·o·blig·ing, adjective
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How to use obliging in a sentence
This is a sound and obligingness more obligingness leads to a harmony in hesitation.
Tender Buttons | Gertrude SteinThen would he, with his usual obligingness, write down his mimic English echo of Schiller's German echo.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) | Thomas De QuinceyTherefore, if this work has any merit, no small part of it is due to Signor Foucard's obligingness.
Lucretia Borgia | Ferdinand GregoroviusHe would never succeed in passing with the little car if the people did not evince some obligingness.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete | Emile ZolaProfiting by her obligingness Dubarry unfolded his complaint.
Balsamo, The Magician | Alexander Dumas
British Dictionary definitions for obliging
/ (əˈblaɪdʒɪŋ) /
ready to do favours; agreeable; kindly
Derived forms of obliging
- obligingly, adverb
- obligingness, noun
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