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complaisant

[kuhm-pley-suhnt, -zuhnt, kom-pluh-zant]

adjective

  1. inclined or disposed to please; obliging; agreeable or gracious; compliant.

    the most complaisant child I've ever met.



complaisant

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adjective

  1. showing a desire to comply or oblige; polite

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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • complaisantly adverb
  • noncomplaisant adjective
  • noncomplaisantly adverb
  • uncomplaisant adjective
  • uncomplaisantly adverb
  • ³¦´Ç³¾Ëˆ±è±ô²¹¾±²õ²¹²Ô³Ù±ô²â adverb
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of complaisant1

1640–50; < French (present participle of complaire ) < Latin complacent- (stem of ³¦´Ç³¾±è±ô²¹³¦Å§²Ô²õ, present participle of ³¦´Ç³¾±è±ô²¹³¦Å§°ù±ð; complacent )
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of complaisant1

C17: from French complaire, from Latin ³¦´Ç³¾±è±ô²¹³¦Å§°ù±ð to please greatly; compare complacent
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Private institutional investors such as BlackRock and Vanguard tend to be more complaisant about CEO pay — except for European funds.

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She opined that modern journalists, like herself, had helped to "normalise the absurd" and that going forward "whilst we do not have to be campaigners, nor should we be complaisant, complicit, onlookers."

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But Post Malone’s signature aesthetic gesture is the smear, the complaisant way his voice molds neatly to whatever’s handed to him.

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Abe, who hosted Trump in Tokyo a month ago and has been as complaisant as any world leader in courting the unpredictable U.S. president, has little to show for his efforts.

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The Federal Trade Commission has been especially complaisant—it is only now getting around to fining Facebook for failing to abide by its 2011 consent decree intended to protect users’ privacy.

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