acquiescent

Adolescents are less acquiescent than (it is said) they used to be.

It was too much of an effort to play the acquiescent wife: her heart would burst.

To find one who was less than acquiescent must have been a considerable shock.

But he'd offered nothing more than a smile and an acquiescent nod.

"It's better than anyone ever offered me before," she said with an acquiescent shrug.

Then he gave him an acquiescent nod, rose from his chair, and started out of the office.

"If you're that acquiescent, you may be here a week.

He seemed simply acquiescent in the fact of his own being, as if he were beyond any change or question.

These trends helped create the acquiescent mood of the audience here.

But when children are at stake we have to rise above that acquiescent mood.

Another, less acquiescent superior might well have taken issue with Montgomery's attitude.

The only sound to escape her was a reluctantly acquiescent sigh.

With his hand he made a little acquiescent gesture.

She seemed to like it, but even with her lips acquiescent under mine, I was wary.

He was full of the new possibilities, and his wife was acquiescent.

"Americans are acquiescent so they'll give you an answer, " he said.

In England, we're brought up to be completely acquiescent.

I will not have her think me acquiescent in her schemes.

"I tend not to be, what do you say, acquiescent to the trustees.

On its part, government showed itself acquiescent to this new-found affection.

Both his southern and northern subjects were sceptical, but at first acquiescent.

"To my amazement, Helen seemed completely acquiescent with this plan.

She also says she is less acquiescent with friends.

There were fears that it was intended to remove him and substitute someone more acquiescent.

Even if she was acquiescent there was no guarantee that he would feel desire.