complaisantly
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.