complaisant

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Private institutional investors such as BlackRock and Vanguard tend to be more complaisant about CEO pay — except for European funds.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

She opined that modern journalists, like herself, had helped to "normalise the absurd" and that going forward "whilst we do not have to be campaigners, nor should we be complaisant, complicit, onlookers."

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2022

The GPA ethos takes spirited children and pushes them to be hard working but complaisant.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2016

It was the last straw for the normally complaisant Bernstein.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2010

What a pity that he declined polite society, where complaisant heiresses were to be met with who would joyfully take his coronet, and afterwards obey his mother.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis