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Meanings of more complaisant in English

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Usage of more complaisant in English
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He smiled so pleasantly that the lady became more complaisant.
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
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A publisher in Fleet Street, named Lowndes, was more complaisant.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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The twins went fortune-seeking in a more complaisant way.
Her Weight in Gold
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In her affable moods, however, no one could be more complaisant and entertaining than Bessie.
Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
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They are more complaisant now that I copy music.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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Never was there more complaisant chaperone than Hennie Penny.
Pearl of Pearl Island
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Maury, a little stouter, faintly mellower, and more complaisant, had gone to work in Philadelphia.
The Beautiful and Damned
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Towards the colonial ambitions of Germany, and still more of Italy, Britain was far more complaisant.
The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History
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I appeal to you, Mr. Idler, whether any thing could be more civil, more complaisant, than this?
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 / ...
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There seems little doubt that as a wife she proved more complaisant to Charles than as a maid.
Love Romances of the Aristocracy
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I equally dreaded giving either of them displeasure; with one I was more complaisant; with the other, more submissive.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01
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There's no courtier in Scotland more complaisant than this chief, or who is more familiar with the laws of decorum.
The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea
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The more complaisant Frank had taken Romanized, Latinized Gaul just as he found her, and had even speedily adopted her religion.
The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England
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Others, older men than Silverbridge, saw as much as did our young friend, but they were more complaisant and more reasonable.
The Duke's Children
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The woman was at first a little brief and sullen in her answers, but care for her family soon rendered her more complaisant.
The Prairie
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He only insisted that some faithful and able Ministers should be removed, and others appointed in their place, more complaisant and less honest.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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