obliging

• Even when receptionists are obliging, after speaking to them 20 or 30 times a day, they will start to recognize your voice. —  ERE.net
• They find it in their interest to be generous, obliging, and friendly; but to represent them as timorous sycophants is absurd. —  The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
• This stranger was both clever and obliging, and Platzoff himself confessed that the fellow made such a good substitute that he missed Cleon less than he at first feared he should have done. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
• "He is obliging, and often says very agreeable things to you It costs more to win my esteem than a few unmeaning compliments, which Brithric is accustomed to pay to every one with whom he is desirous of carrying his point," said Wilfrid And what should Brithric, who is the heir of the richest thane in my brother's court, want to gain of a poor, landless orphan who owes his sustenance and education to the compassion of King Athelstane?" —  The Children's Portion
• I had led a vagabond career myself, and had frequent reason, in my incipient literary days, to be grieved with publishers' "readers;" and when promoted to the same exalted place, I resolved to be charitable, careful, and obliging--to do as I would be done by--to crush no delicate Keats, to enrage no Johnson, by slight, prejudice, or deprecation. —  Tales of the Chesapeake

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