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Значения термина complaisant на английском

Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others.

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Eager to please.

Использование термина complaisant на английском
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There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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The old man was not in a particularly complaisant mood that day.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
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But all through the evening he was affable and complaisant and forbearing.
The Fatal Glove
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And the complaisant Marceau may have an evil quarter of an hour.
The Refugees / A Tale of Two Continents
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She again smiled: It was a complaisant facade of any common soldier.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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The effect of her medicine was always to make her very complaisant.
This Freedom
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When she saw before her the veiled lady she became quite complaisant.
The Nameless Castle
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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
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Altogether Dickey was complaisant, and David enjoyed a busy and successful day.
The Stowaway Girl
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Be complaisant, worthy captain of trainbands and Burgess from a dozen huts!
To Have and to Hold
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Because she was too happy, madam; too complaisant; too uninstructed in the emotions.
The Precipice: A Novel
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The women were free and complaisant; there were many children about.
1492
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The high virtues are not complaisant, it is the cad the canaille adore.
Imperial Purple
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Even the most complaisant women like at least the appearance of a siege.
A Little Journey in the World
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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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