0 willing to satisfy others by being polite and fitting in with their plans:
She carried on passionate love affairs with the consent of her complaisant husband.
His comment went unchallenged by the complaisant Morgan.
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.
