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He cursed himself inwardly for having been so complaisant for so long.
He spent the next hour setting up an alibi with two complaisant friends.
We need solutions which will keep everyone happy and complaisant.
Gentlemen became subject to the ideals of politeness, in which men were expected to control their emotions and be generous and complaisant towards those with whom they interacted.
Analytically, the book explores the ways in which multinational oil corporations, local agro-exporting interests and a complaisant state seek to establish forms of neoliberal government in a third-world country.
We appeared to be docile, tame, subservient, complaisant and non-protesting against that line of conduct.
In the past, fire authorities may have been over-complacent—and complaisant—in conniving with that, and we must address the issue.
Should we show ourselves complaisant in our own destruction, we shall earn that destruction.
For married women with young children, birth control and planning their families is essential, as well as a complaisant husband—and this is a really great help.
But it would help to check the sort of deception where a grossly excessive price is recommended by a complaisant supplier to just one or a few retailers.
We have become much too complaisant.
By 1989, citizens who had been complaisant were willing to openly express their discontent with the regime.
Lodovico is a ridiculously complaisant husband.
A rival name, graceful spiny-rat, is no better justified; "gratiosus" specifically means either enjoying favour, favoured, beloved, or showing favour, complaisant a favourite, or at best gracious, not graceful.
