compromising

[ UK /kˈɒmpɹəmˌa‍ɪzɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪzɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. making or willing to make concessions
    loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet
  2. vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion
    she found herself in a compromising situation
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How To Use compromising In A Sentence

  • His dark eyes stared back, full of rawness, honesty and uncompromising sincerity.
  • Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
  • Funnily enough, I was almost caught in a compromising situation earlier by one of the engineers.
  • Unflinching in its attacks, A Ma Soeur is a brilliant piece by an uncompromising and distinctive auteur.
  • In what was a hard-fought encounter, the Dubliners played an uncompromising game under both boards.
  • He was a jumped-up clarinettist who was abrasively uncompromising about achieving top quality standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fueled by supremacist and puritan theological creeds their symbolic acts of power become uncompromisingly fanatic and violent.
  • It is a stubborn thing resisting the call to self-annihilation, deadening pain, and compromising with what is simply wrong. Lonni Collins Pratt: The Sacred Power Of Hope
  • Newsweek's editor was targeted this spring by an internet campaign that used surreptitiously recorded footage showing him, as well as opposition politicians, in compromising situations. Publisher Shuts Russian Weekly
  • The combination of practising painters. ideal facilities, the surrounding landscape and desire for uncompromising inquiry gives Herringbroom Studio its unique spirit.
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