complaisance

Noun

Meaning

Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

compliance courtesy civility affability deference compliancy obligingness agreement respect acceptance consent pleasure flexibility satisfaction submission
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Antonyms

disorder coup chaos disturbance dissent discontent
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Hypernyms

agreeableness agreeability

Examples

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Gustave Flaubert

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. Agnes Repplier

My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I speak a language full and intelligible. I deal not in hints and intimations. [...] First, that I may be clearly understood. Secondly, that it may be seen I am in earnest; and, thirdly, because it is an affront to truth to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine

Close letter words and terms

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