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Word for the Day, Monday, May 23, 2016 - Complaisant
Dicionary.com ^ | Monday | tioga

Posted on 05/23/2016 8:50:00 AM PDT by tioga


In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

Complaisant

Adjective

    Inclined or disposed to please; obliging; agreeable or gracious; compliant: the most complaisant child I've ever met.


Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)

Practice makes perfect.....post on....

Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)

Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister

Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate


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To: Gaffer
1640s, from French complaisant (16c.), in Middle French, "pleasing," present participle of complaire "acquiesce to please," from Latin complacere "be very pleasing" (see complacent, with which it overlapped till mid-19c.). Possibly influenced in French by Old French plaire "gratify."

It's a Frenchy thing.

21 posted on 05/23/2016 9:05:54 AM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: kiryandil

Yes....I guessed that from the ‘lais’ part. It still isn’t a word I think I’ll ever use.


22 posted on 05/23/2016 9:07:50 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: tioga

None of the remaining candidates is complaisant. So we have a real donnybrook on our hands!!!!


23 posted on 05/23/2016 9:10:18 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Gaffer; tioga
Yes....I guessed that from the ‘lais’ part. It still isn’t a word I think I’ll ever use.

Yeah - but tioga made you THINK about it... :)

24 posted on 05/23/2016 9:13:56 AM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: kiryandil

Okay....fine....I’m not going belabor it.


25 posted on 05/23/2016 9:18:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: tioga

No telling how much they spent
Or to whom exactly it went
To print the lies
So the Clintons get by
With an MSM that’s complaisant


26 posted on 05/23/2016 9:29:45 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Honorary Serb

Do we ever. A+


27 posted on 05/23/2016 9:38:26 AM PDT by tioga
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To: dblshot

Pathetic isn’t it? A++++


28 posted on 05/23/2016 9:39:04 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

‘Tis but a thin line between complaisancy, complacency and obsequiousness.


29 posted on 05/23/2016 10:40:27 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: tioga

Obama, malevolent malfeasant
Enabled by our Congress, complaisant
After having conniptions
I switched to prescriptions
I need that strong anti-depressant


30 posted on 05/23/2016 10:58:48 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hillary's last name were anything but Clinton, she'd already be behind bars.)
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To: tioga

Wow-it sounds like those two people have a dislike that involves more than just dogs-it is like some kind Latin venganza...

Hillary is not complaisant-
At times she pretends to be
Her manners are short lived
And the real her easy to see

Nasty, bitchy, wants her way
She’ll do anything to get it-
Staff or friends who disagree
Will surely live to regret it

That grating scolding voice
Always comes right into play
As she cackles and talks over
Anyone with something to say...


31 posted on 05/23/2016 11:28:48 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

A++++


32 posted on 05/23/2016 11:36:43 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Texan5

A++++ Excellent.

It was time. We have all had it with this neighbor. I would not have gone over and yelled, but it got this out in the open. He is a nasty man and he encourages his dogs. I stand with the rest of the ‘hood. It’s him against the whole neighborhood. Over a hundred homes and they all know where he lives.


33 posted on 05/23/2016 11:41:39 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

What is wrong with the guy-does he hate all people, or just his neighbors-either way, why doesn’t he just keep to himself, or move someplace else?


34 posted on 05/23/2016 11:45:21 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: tioga

Hoollllyyy cow!!!! That sounds fierce.!!


35 posted on 05/23/2016 12:16:48 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Gaffer

Okay then. Some of us, in fact those of us who’ve been on this thread for 15 yrs or so, enjoy learning all kinds of words whether we will ever use them in common parlance or not. We embrace language rather than shunning words as obscure or it useful. Perhaps this is not the thread for you....


36 posted on 05/23/2016 12:19:15 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

Glad some of the Trojans refuse to be complaisant:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3433253/posts


37 posted on 05/23/2016 4:32:14 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

A++++ I was reading the comments at the site.....even had to comment on the thread. LOL You got me.


38 posted on 05/23/2016 6:03:55 PM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy

Cops walked away from it this morning........claimed they couldn’t do anything about it. My neighbor went out with her shovel and flung it all back. Gonna be a long hot summer.


39 posted on 05/23/2016 6:05:16 PM PDT by tioga
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