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Meanings of very complaisant in English

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Usage of very complaisant in English
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The effect of her medicine was always to make her very complaisant.
This Freedom
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He is a very complaisant man, and has already shown me many civilities.
Travels in England in 1782
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Ida was not in a very complaisant mood, and she glanced at him coldly.
The Gold Trail
4
Our hero was seemingly in a very complaisant mood.
Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist; Or, Dudie Dunne Agai...
5
Yes, yes; she shall find me very complaisant.
Anna St. Ives
6
You lords of creation ought to be very complaisant, or else very much ashamed of yourselves.
From a Girl's Point of View
7
And I will gladly do all in my power to help you, replied this very complaisant lady.
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
8
It had become very complaisant under his beautiful hands and was now one of his most reliable leaders.
The irish devil
9
Ah, Monsieur, you are very complaisant!
French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
10
I do not go to see him perhaps for ten weeks; then we are very complaisant to each other.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
11
After this Miss White became a great deal more cheerful; and she was very complaisant to them all at luncheon.
Macleod of Dare
12
Of a verity she has taken her fill of it, the artful girl; and with her, virtue has grown very complaisant.
The School for Husbands
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Captain Barry reported to the owners that "the commanders in our little fleet are very complaisant and obliging to each other."
The Story of Commodore John Barry
14
"You are at least," she answered sharply, "a very complaisant one."
The Yellow Crayon
15
"The world is very complaisant, sir."
Doctor Thorne
16
"You generally find me very complaisant."
Can You Forgive Her?
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