yielding
adjective
inclined to give in; submissive; compliant.
yieldingly
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a word derived from
yielding.
Example Sentences
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It was wrong, I know," replied Katey yieldingly; "yet Heaven knows it was no pastime.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
"You know I don't want to," he grumbled yieldingly.
From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Louis Zangwill
“No one but you could have said a thing like that,” she observed mildly, yieldingly.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
Her figure swayed forward yieldingly as if she would give herself into the keeping of the sun-drenched, pine-soaked air.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
"Do—do you so much mind, then?" she asked yieldingly.
From The Tigress by Anne Warner
