complaisant

But still, I certainly do not intend to be the complaisant husband.

But I am willing to play whatever game is expected; and was complaisant.

It is necessary that we should be more than complaisant to the count.

But in the women's jockey room, after the race, she was complaisant.

For Olivia was married; and to no complaisant husband, either.

The fear of discovery had left her, or perhaps a complaisant husband now gave us a limited freedom.

He had been far too complaisant before, and they both had paid the price.

Their effect here is to soften the satire and make it complaisant.

All the years of their marriage she had been ever complaisant toward him in his card-playing.

While he was gone, a complaisant Senator would allow the land sale to be approved without discussion.

It was not the laughter of slaves, complaisant or discreet.

The complaisant husband was long since dead, as was his friend, her son, swept away in the war.

"But your husband," she said, "does not appear to me to be the sort who makes a complaisant cuckold."

It was well enough inclined, too, to be complaisant to the King of England.

He was neither xenophobic nor complaisant when it came to the foreign devil.

Maybe a complaisant press corps overlooked his moral and physical frailties.

For that, a complaisant Congress is to blame.

The Democrats are just as complaisant about this as the Republicans.

A complaisant Press ensured that these relationships remained secret.

And her voice was commanding, imperious, not the complaisant guest house hostess, but a woman of force.

They'd almost have to dismember my personality and reintegrate it on a lower, complaisant level.

The complaisant attitudes came from some surprising quarters.

He wondered if Herbert Solomon was a complaisant man.

In front of a gallery on Lexington Avenue he picked up a complaisant young girl with long black hair.

Worse, he steered the regulation of technology transfer to the complaisant Commerce Department.