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Recent Examples of complaisance Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity. Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022 Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article. Armond White, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022 What is lost is the look of complaisance that defines young founders looking for capital. Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021 There are more emphatic reasons for the market’s complaisance. Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for complaisance
Noun
  • The city's hospital system also ranked eighth overall, and Minneapolis was 34th in retiree-friendliness.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There's certain momentum, there's a warmth, a genuine friendliness.
    Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The farmer’s tendency to pursue high yields obscured the delicate pleasantness this grape gives when handled carefully.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • No special effects were required to trigger Curry's stark drift from amiability to horrifying emptiness.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There’s an offbeat amiability to Easy’s Waltz that wouldn’t have been possible had nearly every actor involved not been on board with the modest aims of its filmmaker.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • In Killers of the Flower Moon, his Ernest Burkhart starts off as a mopey, weak-minded World War One veteran, eager to do anything for his godfather uncle (Robert De Niro), but there’s still a certain likability to his dim-bulb submissiveness.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Complaisance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complaisance. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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