Complaisant Definition

kəm-plāsənt, -zənt
adjective
Willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging.
Webster's New World

Compliant.

Wiktionary

Willing to do what pleases others.

Wiktionary

(archaic) Polite, showing respect.

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Origin of Complaisant

  • From French complaisant (“willing to please”), from complaire, from Latin complacēre, present active infinitive of complaceō (“please well”), from com- (“with”) + placeō (“please”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French present participle of complaire to please from Latin complacēre complacent

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Complaisant Sentence Examples

  • Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant?

  • Stolypin had not ventured to alter the electoral law without parliamentary consent, but with the aid of a complaisant Senate the pro- The visions of the existing law were interpreted in a restrictive second sense for the purpose of influencing the elections.

  • Concerning his second marriage, it suffices to say that the Baroness Imhoff was nearly forty years of age, with a family of grown-up children, when the complaisant law of her native land allowed her to become Mrs Hastings.

  • It would certainly be unwise to draw a sharp boundary line between the two districts; kings of Judah could be tempted to restore the kingdom of their traditional founder, or Assyria might be complaisant towards a faithful Judaean vassal.

  • That most favourable to him is that he was expected to lend himself in a more or less complaisant manner to assist and cover Madame d'Epinay's adulterous affection for Grimm.

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