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complaisant
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synonyms: ~officious ???
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Definition:demonstrating a willingness to help; accommodating; obliging
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The people, who had often heard of me, were very curious to crowd about the sedan, and the girl was complaisant enough to make the bearers stop, and to take me in her hand, that I might be more conveniently seen. high.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Sir Ulic was very complaisant, made her a great many high-flown compliments; and, when we retired, handed her with great ceremony to her chair.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Obedient as one of those complaisant disciples from whom Socrates could get whatever answer he chose, Anne gave her assent to this proposition.
Aldous Huxley. Crome Yellow (1921)
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my optimistic hypothesis with regard to her possible complaisances, I should perhaps have answered that this hypothesis was due
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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his hopes, that a mistress might be found for it at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Remedios the Beauty treated the men without the least bit of malice and in the end upset them with her innocent complaisance.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.250 (1970)
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