complaisantly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
complaisant + -ly
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
complaisantly (comparative more complaisantly, superlative most complaisantly)
- In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972:
- One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.
Usage notes[edit]
As this is much less common, it is liable to be confused in speech with the more common homophone complacently.