Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a complaisant manner; with civility; with an obliging, affable address or deportment.

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  • adverb archaic In a complaisant manner; obligingly.

Etymologies

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complaisant +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She's defiant and she won't back down complaisantly.

    "Why Do Liberals Hate Ann Althouse?" Ann Althouse 2009

  • Each, perhaps, a new mate in eye, and rejoicing secretly in the manumission, could afford to be complaisantly sorrowful in appearance.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Miss Arabella asked me after her, when I withdrew to my chamber; to which she complaisantly accompanied me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • You need only to say, that you see there are no HOPES, as you will perhaps complaisantly call it, of succeeding with me [and indeed, Sir, there cannot be a greater truth]; and that you will therefore no more think of me, but turn your thoughts another way.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • So he saluted me, very complaisantly; and said, I vow to Gad, madam, I did not know this yesterday; and if I was guilty of a fault, I beg your pardon.

    Pamela 2006

  • I was made to drink two dishes, with milk, complaisantly urged by the pretended ladies helping me each to one.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • They believe programs such as A.A. makes the people the programs are meant for “lazy” and forges a complaisantly among those who recieve the help.

    Think Progress » Buchanan Argues For Immigration Moratorium To Preserve White Dominance 2006

  • But he bows complaisantly to his competitors; thus he ascends the hall, descends, and exacts the forfeit of drinking.

    The Analects Confucius 2004

  • As Peregrine manifested an inclination of being acquainted with the state of his affairs, he very complaisantly satisfied his curiosity by giving him to know that his spouse had left off breeding, after having blessed him with two boys and a girl, who were still alive and well; that he lived in good esteem with his neighbors; and by his practice, which was considerably extended immediately after the publication of

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • What she does not know is that you, her son, should have listened to them so complaisantly.

    The Idiot 2002

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