complaisant
Example Sentences
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Private institutional investors such as BlackRock and Vanguard tend to be more complaisant about CEO pay — except for European funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
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."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2022
The GPA ethos takes spirited children and pushes them to be hard working but complaisant.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2016
It was the last straw for the normally complaisant Bernstein.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2010
When thou complaisant Looked on expectant for some virtuous act, How Self appeared like some fierce tigress couchant, And we with evil motive seemed impact!
From Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward by Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)
Vocabulary lists containing complaisant
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Society and Solitude
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"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," Vocabulary from the short story
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