Definition of Complaisance

Complaisance

Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.

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Complaisance Quotations

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier

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