biddably

English

Etymology

biddable +‎ -ly

Adverb

biddably (comparative more biddably, superlative most biddably)

1. In a biddable manner, compliantly.
   • 1940, "This England," Time, 5 August, 1940, [1]

     "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel."

   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck‎^[2]:

     I thanked my host for the uncomfortable night which, but for his kindness, would have been far worse, and biddably leapt from the boat to the scow.