complaisantly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

complaisant +‎ -ly

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

complaisantly (comparative more complaisantly, superlative most complaisantly)

  1. 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.