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complaisant

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1. complaisant - Adjective

2. complaisant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.

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Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover Source: Internet

the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave Source: Internet

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