How To Use Complaisant In A Sentence
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She's always helpful and complaisant.
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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
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She was a complaisant wife and dutiful daughter.
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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
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I was made to drink two dishes, with milk, complaisantly urged by the pretended ladies helping me each to one.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Miss Arabella asked me after her, when I withdrew to my chamber; to which she complaisantly accompanied me.
Clarissa Harlowe
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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
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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
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These ideas were encouraged by complaisant Western ‘development economists’ and by a dubious semantic innovation.
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Each, perhaps, a new mate in eye, and rejoicing secretly in the manumission, could afford to be complaisantly sorrowful in appearance.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Noah's eyes were slightly jealous, but he was so complaisant that I figured he'd get over it in a day.
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They believe programs such as A.A. makes the people the programs are meant for “lazy” and forges a complaisantly among those who recieve the help.
Think Progress » Buchanan Argues For Immigration Moratorium To Preserve White Dominance
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Throughout, they appear to have used Laos more or less as a complaisant cat's paw.
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to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover
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There is no good thing which knowledge does not comprehend -- Mêden estin agathon ho ouk epistêmê periechei + -- a strenuously [84] ascertained knowledge however, painfully adjusted to other forms of knowledge which may seem inconsistent with it, and impenetrably distinct from any kind of complaisant or only half-attentive conjecture.
Plato and Platonism
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So he saluted me, very complaisantly; and said, I vow to Gad, madam, I did not know this yesterday; and if I was guilty of a fault, I beg your pardon.
Pamela
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Strangely though, this doesn't come over as frosty or nihilistic, but harmless and complaisant.
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The complaisant attitudes came from some surprising quarters.
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You need only to say, that you see there are no HOPES, as you will perhaps complaisantly call it, of succeeding with me [and indeed, Sir, there cannot be a greater truth]; and that you will therefore no more think of me, but turn your thoughts another way.
Clarissa Harlowe
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I feel optimal hair should resemble silk cloth same complaisantand ablaze.
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In fact, if he means to keep it up, newspapers may want to send a mixed party of philosophers and wranglers, instead of complaisant hacks, to his next party conference.
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He is a sort of 'complaisant' of the President Montesquieu, to whom you have a letter.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750
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Watch for his replacement by a complaisant government puppet, and a speedy and unsatisfactory end to the MPCC's foredoomed investigation.
Archive 2009-10-01
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And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor.
The Charm of Oxford
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Déjà un nombre considérable de tranches s'étaient succédé dans l'estomac complaisant de ce nouveau Gargantua, quand on vint lui annoncer que la cavalerie de Henri IV, emportée par sa folle audace, s'était engagée dans un taillis inextricable.
French Conversation and Composition
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The most apparently helpful, complaisant people are often the nosiest, the most intrusive and manipulative.
Beard
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In fact, if he means to keep it up, newspapers may want to send a mixed party of philosophers and wranglers, instead of complaisant hacks, to his next party conference.
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What she does not know is that you, her son, should have listened to them so complaisantly.
The Idiot
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But he bows complaisantly to his competitors; thus he ascends the hall, descends, and exacts the forfeit of drinking.
The Analects
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Throughout, they appear to have used Laos more or less as a complaisant cat's paw.
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The franc-tireur in charge of the wine-bin watches us complaisantly from his counter where he sits flanked by flasks of Hoboken chianti and a case of brittle cigars.
Shandygaff
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Who cared for tradition in these days, when spirits could be evoked from black bottles, and black bottles could be evoked from the complaisant white men for a few hours 'sweat or a mangy fur?
THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF
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His friends, who have known him for more than 25 years, say he has never in his life used one single cuss word, has never been unfriendly and has always been very complaisant.
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From what you have just told me, your mother has got the idea, that your husband is what is called a complaisant husband.”
Maigret and the Old Lady
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He made his move when local government in England was at its most complaisant – led by Tories who put party loyalty first and preoccupied by cuts in spending.
Abolishing the Audit Commission does not add up
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And a complaisant public is also, of course, invaluable to the transaction.
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Although the subsidiary was complaisant to do the parent's will, it did function in giving effect to the parent's wishes and the parent did not usurp the control of the subsidiary.
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If "complaisant" was not the very last word that came to mind at the thought of Jamie Fraser, it was certainly well down toward the bottom of the list.
Dragonfly in Amber
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Ruthless spin doctors and complaisant media can be a tragic mix
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But nothing seems to shift a complaisant populace.
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And he said nothing when still a third nurse came his way; a woman who was callid, complaisant, and nauseatingly nymphomaniac.
This Crowded Earth
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She's defiant and she won't back down complaisantly.
"Why Do Liberals Hate Ann Althouse?"
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Watch for his replacement by a complaisant government puppet, and a speedy and unsatisfactory end to the MPCC's foredoomed investigation.
Archive 2009-10-01
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As Peregrine manifested an inclination of being acquainted with the state of his affairs, he very complaisantly satisfied his curiosity by giving him to know that his spouse had left off breeding, after having blessed him with two boys and a girl, who were still alive and well; that he lived in good esteem with his neighbors; and by his practice, which was considerably extended immediately after the publication of
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
