people-pleasing
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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I set up this new session by harnessing the same sycophantic, people-pleasing tendencies that can make AI hallucinate in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
"I think it chimes really well with my generation of people-pleasing," she says.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
The people-pleasing kicked in because it’s all I’ve ever known.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025
Among them: an intense feeling of familial responsibility, people-pleasing tendencies and resentment toward your siblings and parents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Lord ADDINGTON, most wonderful Of people-pleasing peers, You certainly contrived to raise "Enthusiastic cheers."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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