OBLIGINGLY Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

obligingly

adverb

Definition of obligingly

as in voluntarily

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Recent Examples of obligingly With about 500 feet of line out, my fish has obligingly decided to sulk. — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 Give it a wiggle and the rhinestones obligingly flip right-side up, ready to be picked up. — Angela Haupt, Time, 19 May 2026 Claude, a large language model (LLM) developed by the company Anthropic, obligingly laid out possible interpretations. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 15 May 2026

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Harris first joined DeKalb police in 2014 before voluntarily resigning in 2020, Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council records show.

— Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 9 July 2026
Key to the settlement was the notion that detainees who work voluntarily in immigration detention facilities are employees.

— Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of voluntarily

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Their customers are busy professionals who don’t enjoy shopping, don’t want to think about what to wear each morning, and would gladly eliminate laundry and dry cleaning from their weekly routines.

— Angela Chan-Danisi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
He was originally only meant to play six shows at Wembley, but gladly doubled the number of performances when demand for tickets skyrocketed.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026

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