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What does complaisant mean?

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Adjective
  1. Compliant.
  2. Willing to do what pleases others.
  3. (archaic) Polite, showing respect.
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And a complaisant public is also, of course, invaluable to the transaction.
In fact, if he means to keep it up, newspapers may want to send a mixed party of philosophers and wranglers, instead of complaisant hacks, to his next party conference.
Strangely though, this doesn't come over as frosty or nihilistic, but harmless and complaisant.
And loves me just enough to advise me to be complaisant to a man I despise.
Barbara mentions that a lockout calendar would remind our members not to be complaisant.
For him the goddess of Chance had smiled, and he was in the most complaisant humour.

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