Pincer urged me to come over and use bosun umbles to put her in a cooperative mood, but I declined.

The wizards were obviously not in a cooperative mood, and he thought it wiser to save his questions for more important things.

"Are you feeling in a more cooperative mood, now?"

That means, among other things, fighting it out with Congress, which does not seem to be in a cooperative mood.

She was in a cooperative mood, so terrified by whatever she had seen that she was willing to tell him anything.

We want them to be in a cooperative mood.

And if anyone in authority thinks any different, they have but to radio their head­quarters to be put in a cooperative mood.

The threat of certain death put them in a cooperative mood.

It makes things so unpleasant when people aren't in a cooperative mood.

What if we hadn't been in a cooperative mood?