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   complaisant

   /kəmˈpleɪznt/

   adjective

   • 1. willing to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest: "there are too many complaisant doctors signing sick notes"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: French, from complaire ‘acquiesce in order to please’, from Latin complacere ‘to please’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. complaisance noun
   • 2. complaisantly adverb

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