acquiescent

How To Use acquiescent In A Sentence

• So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of Government without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
• n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically Xml's Blinklist.com
• Finally Marika bowed her head slightly, seemingly acquiescent, obviously disappointed. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
• n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically Xml's Blinklist.com
• Many doctors continue to think that some individual patients are simply more susceptible to the placebo effect than others - more gullible, more neurotic or more acquiescent to authority.
• Clara switches from being aggressive to being acquiescent and Lucio does the reverse.
• This despite the presence last week of Broadway diva Patti LuPone in the singing role of Anna 1, a no-nonsense, matronly gal, and dancer Wendy Whelan, in her 20th anniversary year with NYCB, as dancing Anna 2, the acquiescent sibling or split personality accompanying her sister as they travel the U.S. making money to send to their stern family for a new house. Seven Sins, Both Deadly and Dull
• Why did the Bush Administration need to engage in the illegal spying of American citizens in hundreds if not thousands of cases if the court so acquiescently approved of its requests? ' OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush's Enemies List. Why Did Bush Commit an Illegal, Impachable Act When All His Lawyers Had to Do Was Walk Into a Secre
• His anxiety proneness seems less pronounced now than it was in 1985, but in spite of this he proved to be abnormally suggestible, compliant and acquiescent.
• A skeptical press is essential to a healthy and functioning democracy, and the consequences of such an acquiescent media are frightening.