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Meanings of complaisant in English

Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others.

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Eager to please.

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Examples for "complacent"
Examples for "complacent"
1
The market in short is complacent, with a good bit of cynicism.
Reuters
2
That's a good sign but we're certainly not going to be complacent.
Radio NZ
3
The government is worried New Zealanders are becoming complacent about the virus.
Radio NZ
4
Police Assistant Commissioner Richard Chambers says it's important people don't get complacent.
Radio NZ
5
Unfortunately, it is easy to become complacent by measuring the wrong things.
Forbes
Usage of complaisant in English
1
There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
2
The old man was not in a particularly complaisant mood that day.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
3
But all through the evening he was affable and complaisant and forbearing.
The Fatal Glove
4
And the complaisant Marceau may have an evil quarter of an hour.
The Refugees / A Tale of Two Continents
5
She again smiled: It was a complaisant facade of any common soldier.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
6
The effect of her medicine was always to make her very complaisant.
This Freedom
7
When she saw before her the veiled lady she became quite complaisant.
The Nameless Castle
8
His Majesty, however, seemed more than complaisant; he was even boyishly eager.
John Enderby
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That man with the mobile and complaisant conscience had already forgiven himself.
Cosmopolis — Volume 4
10
Altogether Dickey was complaisant, and David enjoyed a busy and successful day.
The Stowaway Girl
11
Be complaisant, worthy captain of trainbands and Burgess from a dozen huts!
To Have and to Hold
12
Because she was too happy, madam; too complaisant; too uninstructed in the emotions.
The Precipice: A Novel
13
The women were free and complaisant; there were many children about.
1492
14
The high virtues are not complaisant, it is the cad the canaille adore.
Imperial Purple
15
Even the most complaisant women like at least the appearance of a siege.
A Little Journey in the World
16
They are out for fun, and therefore in an appreciative and complaisant mood.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917
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