biddably

English edit

biddably (comparative more biddably, superlative most biddably)

In a biddable manner, compliantly.
- 1940 August 5, “This England”, in Time:
  "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^[1]:
  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.