Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not complaisant; not civil; not courteous.
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- adjective Not
complaisant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His wife was long since dead, and he stated, without contradiction, that his master, having taken a fancy to her, had despatched the uncomplaisant husband to imprisonment.
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The first is, a natural roughness, which makes a man uncomplaisant to others, so that he has no deference for their inclinations, tempers, or conditions.
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His great puzzle was the Anglo-Saxon, cold, austere and uncomplaisant.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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It is hard to speak of these false Fair Ones, without saying something uncomplaisant, but
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It is hard to speak of these false Fair Ones, without saying something uncomplaisant, but I would only recommend to them to consider how they like coming into a Room new
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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-- Vid. the shopkeepers 'books.] [Footnote 18: Girls who love to hear themselves prate, and put on a number of monkey-airs to catch men.] [Footnote 19: I hope none will be so uncomplaisant to the ladies as to think these comparisons are odious.] [Footnote 20: Tell the whole world; not to proclaim them as robbers and rapparees.]
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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