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Перевод: complaisant
[прилагательное] услужливый; обходительный; любезный; умильный; почтительный
Тезаурус:
- When he went north to join his apparently complaisant wife for Christmas and Liza went to Cornwall, Harriet was troubled by the curious change in her daughter.
- The breach with the inherited system lay not in Godoy's policies but in the relegation to impotence of the trained bureaucrats who had been the servants of Charles III; it lay in the scandalous origins and untrammelled nature of his power as the queen's supposed lover and the "dearest friend" of the complaisant Charles IV.
- That was the first weakness, the first failure, which had led on, so inevitably , through the series of, not after all so many, girls who did not matter, to the girl who mattered; and to the point where Franca's complaisant kindness must come to an abrupt end.
- It thus became impossible for any king in future to prolong indefinitely the life of a complaisant House of Commons, as Charles II had done with the "Cavalier Parliament" of 1661-;79.
- Worse than a Fool that's complaisant and kind:
- She'd become careless, complaisant.
- Similarly, when Dorothea exclaims, "Instead of Lazarus at the gate, we should put the pig-sty cottages outside", she seems to be planning to build her model ones within the grounds of the complaisant Sir James.
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