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adverbcomplaisantly (comparative more complaisantly, superlative most complaisantly)
comparative more complaisantly · superlative most complaisantly
- In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972
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complaisantly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/complaisantly
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