complaisant

How To Use complaisant In A Sentence

• She's always helpful and complaisant.
• Their orators grew magniloquent over its tyrannical oppression; the Southern press overflowed with that marvellous exuberance of diatribe of which they are the acknowledged masters -- to all of which the complaisant North gave a ready and subservient concurrence, until the very name reeked in the public mind with infamous associations and degrading ideas. Bricks without Straw A Novel
• She was a complaisant wife and dutiful daughter.
• They cannot rightly be called complaisant, since they do not know, but they are good creatures who cannot see farther than their nose. Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
• I was made to drink two dishes, with milk, complaisantly urged by the pretended ladies helping me each to one. Clarissa Harlowe
• Miss Arabella asked me after her, when I withdrew to my chamber; to which she complaisantly accompanied me. Clarissa Harlowe
• I found him exceedingly complaisant and courteous in his manners; but his true zambo nature was not wholly concealed beneath the smooth surface. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
• If he do this with the mere intention of pleasing he is said to be "complaisant," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 6): whereas if he do it with the intention of making some gain out of it, he is called a "flatterer" or "adulator. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• These ideas were encouraged by complaisant Western ‘development economists’ and by a dubious semantic innovation.
• Each, perhaps, a new mate in eye, and rejoicing secretly in the manumission, could afford to be complaisantly sorrowful in appearance. Clarissa Harlowe