complaisant

How To Use complaisant In A Sentence

• From what you have just told me, your mother has got the idea, that your husband is what is called a complaisant husband.” Maigret and the Old Lady
• And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor. The Charm of Oxford
• Déjà un nombre considérable de tranches s'étaient succédé dans l'estomac complaisant de ce nouveau Gargantua, quand on vint lui annoncer que la cavalerie de Henri IV, emportée par sa folle audace, s'était engagée dans un taillis inextricable. French Conversation and Composition
• The most apparently helpful, complaisant people are often the nosiest, the most intrusive and manipulative. Beard
• In fact, if he means to keep it up, newspapers may want to send a mixed party of philosophers and wranglers, instead of complaisant hacks, to his next party conference.
• What she does not know is that you, her son, should have listened to them so complaisantly. The Idiot
• But he bows complaisantly to his competitors; thus he ascends the hall, descends, and exacts the forfeit of drinking. The Analects
• Throughout, they appear to have used Laos more or less as a complaisant cat's paw.
• The franc-tireur in charge of the wine-bin watches us complaisantly from his counter where he sits flanked by flasks of Hoboken chianti and a case of brittle cigars. Shandygaff
• Who cared for tradition in these days, when spirits could be evoked from black bottles, and black bottles could be evoked from the complaisant white men for a few hours 'sweat or a mangy fur? THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF