complaisant

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• The complaisant - "we know we are better than the rest of the league" attitude for most of the season explains the final standings. —  NYT > Home Page
• Rich and others on the left are complaisant, and with good reason. —  Culture and Media Institute Headlines
• She becomes more complaisant, and, instead of repulsing him, is willing to listen and receive._) As I have said, the fight will go on just the same. —  Theft A Play In Four Acts
• (1022) Later on they became more complaisant, and expressed their readiness to furnish the number of horse demanded "in respect of the pressing occasions and necessities now lying on the Commonwealth," notwithstanding the proportion laid on the City was greater than that imposed on any other part of the nation. —  London and the Kingdom - Volume II
• Nay, the supper came off at the very "Rod and Fly," with the tap open to the roaring, jubilant public; a score of healths were drunk upstairs with all the honours, the bride and bridegroom being king and queen of the company: even Uncle Barnet owned that Sam Winnington was very complaisant--rather exceed in his complaisance, he supplemented scornfully; but surely Sam might mend that fault with others in the bright days to come. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

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