complaisant
Example Sentences
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In 1961, he had a small part in a production of Arnold Wesker's Roots and made his Broadway debut as the comic valet in The Complaisant Lover.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2016
To those who relish Novelist and Playwright Graham Greene most when he broods over the eternal triangle�man, guilt and God�The Complaisant Lover will be a qualified disappointment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relatively, one of the worst moments of her life occurred two years ago when she was the adolescent in the Broadway production of Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover.
From Time Magazine Archive
The show closed after 36 performances, and she switched to Graham Greene's Complaisant Lover, which starred Sir Michael Redgrave.
From Time Magazine Archive
Complaisant still were his words to his Burgundian cousin, but the moment was drawing near when his efforts to circumvent him were no longer secret.
From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Putnam, Ruth
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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