obliging

Speech parts

1. obliging - Noun

2. obliging - Adjective

3. obliging - Verb

5. obliging - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Oblige

Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.

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Phrases with the word

Examples

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Gottfried, like any true dictator, liked to surround himself with bland obliging ciphers. Robert Silverberg

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies. James Burgh

It is more a subject of joy that we have so few of the desperate characters which compose modern regular armies. But it proves more forcibly the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier; this was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free State. Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities. Molière

The obliging fool is worse than an enemy. Ukrainian Proverb

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