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 Translation for 'complaisant' from English to Hungarian
ADJ   complaisant | more complaisant | most complaisant
SYNO complaisant | obliging
nyájas {adj}complaisant
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Translation for 'complaisant' from English to Hungarian

complaisant
nyájas {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • In their concern for the renewal of their contracts, some of these adopted an irresponsible and complaisant attitude towards their ministers, directors, or department heads.
  • The resemblance between Brome's complaisant cuckold Saleware in "A Mad Couple" and the character Candido in Thomas Dekker's "The Honest Whore, Part 1" has drawn notice.
  • Stoner turned 18 in November 1934, and at some point became the lover of Alma: her husband, Rattenbury, was a "mari complaisant" (i.e. ...
  • In Uncertain Glory, Cruells was in love with Trini, but he now says of her: “I loved the rebellious Trini of old a thousand times more, the Trini who refused to resign herself to her husband’s infidelities or the opium of a complaisant religion”.
  • Dominance based leaders do use other social influence tactics rather than exclusively coercive and have a range of complaisant tactics such as building relationships and using reason to convince others.

  • Later bishops would not be as complaisant.
  • However, instead of promising athletes, she is given a "group of health" - six not very young men, who are neither healthy nor complaisant.
  • In this position, she is known for the complaisant role she played in assisting the king and his mistresses, though she officially stated her condemnation of the adultery.
  • The frightened Parson is cowed into the status of a wittol, a complaisant cuckold, as Wanton pursues her erotic adventures; he even joins in some of the further schemes of his tricksters.
  • he was weak and indolent and also, surprisingly shy"; "a meek, weak husband and no money";"uneasily complaisant husband".

  • In line 9, the quarto's comma after tame is generally removed; editors have glossed the phrase "tame to sufferance" as "made tame to fortune's blows" (Malone); "bearing tamely even cruel distress" (Dowden); "complaisant in suffering" (Sidney Lee); and "subdued so as to suffer" (Beeching).
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